Try The Dry on Sky
Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love it when a book we’ve championed finds a wider audience via a film adaptation. Back in 2017, we placed The Dry – a debut novel by Jane Harper – on our Recommended list. Four years later, you can…
The Devil's Throat – a taste of Bulgarian crime fiction on Walter Presents
COVID-19 has limited travel options for just about everyone except Barnard Castle tourists, but one thing we have been able to do is travel the world via subtitled crime shows. It’s something readers of Crime Fiction Lover have been doing since long before the pandemic….
Bosch is back on Amazon Prime – for the last time
Fans sprung into action when Amazon Prime announced that this will be the last season of Bosch, and petitions attracted signatures from all over the world. Such is the following for Michael Connelly’s books and these exceptional adaptations. But it was to no avail, and…
Canadian crime show The Murders coming to USA on DVD
Sundance Now has announced the DVD release of the Canadian police procedural crime drama The Murders. The eight-episode series arrives on disc on 29 June 2021, with Jessica Lucas (Gotham, Melrose Place) playing rookie detective Kate Jameson. Jameson is a squeaky clean investigative prodigy whose…
Swedish crime show Beck returns to BBC Four for season 8
It’s been a long time since Martin Beck was last on our screens. Back in 2018, BBC Four ran series seven of the Swedish police procedural crime drama, which lasted just four episodes. Having said that, they were doozies. Now, the Corporation is busy writing…
HBO's surprise crime hit Mare of Easttown
Kate Winslet, the star of Titanic, is probably not the first actress that comes to mind when you think about who might play a hockey mom-style detective working for a small-town police department in Eastern Pennsylvania. But dressed in sweats and constantly vaping, she pulls…
The Nordic Murders returns for season 2 on More4
When the first series of the German crime show The Nordic Murders appeared, it lit the lights and rang the bells here at Crime Fiction Lover. Overnight, our preview of the series became one of the most popular articles on the site. The crime drama…
Floodland brings Flemish crime fiction to our screens
Floodland is a Belgium-Netherlands co-production set in modern day Flanders-Zeeland, the borderland region between the two countries either side of the Scheldt river. It’s a blackly comic police drama that draws heavily on the clash of cultures between city, cosmopolitan liberal values and an out-of-touch…