Chris Ewan

The Interview by CM Ewan

15 February, 2022

Job interviews are a nightmare, aren’t they? The last one I attended started off just fine, even though it was scheduled for 5pm on a Friday. Everything was going OK but then the recruitment expert asking the questions started to get very passive-aggressive with his…

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On the Radar: "I'm asking the questions..."

By crimefictionlover

4 February, 2022

The dreaded job interview is the starting point for CM Ewan’s latest thriller, and we’ll start this week’s new column there because The Interview looks particularly innovative and twisty. We’re equally looking forward to A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge, which is also…

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12 chilling crime reads for Halloween 2021

By crimefictionlover

18 October, 2021

Why do we love crime fiction? Maybe one of the reasons is that it’s the genre where the monsters seem real – well, they don’t rely on magic, spells or supernatural powers to carry out their work. Usually it’s very human stuff. Or inhuman, in…

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The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas

By Philip Rafferty

15 June, 2017

Written by Chris Ewan — Charlie Howard has no qualms about being a thief. As the Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas opens we are led through a tutorial on how to pick a pocket. Our narrator is at a high stakes table in the Fifty…

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Gyles Brandreth does the Ripper thing

By crimefictionlover

9 June, 2017

On the Radar — Were your socks knocked off when you found out that Gyles Brandreth – former Tory MP and TV personality – has written a novel based on the Jack the Ripper case? Well, it floored one or two of the CFL team, that’s…

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Long Time Lost by Chris Ewan

By crimefictionlover

8 May, 2016

You’re a long time dead. So the saying goes. And if you happen to cross one of North West England’s most notorious gangsters, Connor Lane, you might as well be dead. Unless, that is, you get the help of Nick Miller and his team of…

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It all drops on 5 May

By DavidPrestidge

28 April, 2016

On the Radar — 5 May is a big date on the publishing calendar, with a range of big releases landing and plenty of smaller ones too. We’ve already reviewed Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard, Little Sister by David Hewson and In Too Deep…

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CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2014

By crimefictionlover

31 December, 2014

It’s become a tradition here on Crime Fiction Lover for each of our contributors to nominate their five top novels as the year comes to a close. All my colleagues on the site have already posted their lists, which you can check out here, and…

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The Interview by CM Ewan

On the Radar: "I'm asking the questions..."

12 chilling crime reads for Halloween 2021

The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas

Gyles Brandreth does the Ripper thing

Long Time Lost by Chris Ewan

It all drops on 5 May

CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2014

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