The top five crime fiction debuts of 2020
Debut authors have had quite a battle on their hands this year. With bookshops closing in lockdown and festivals being cancelled all over the place, it’s been hard to get their work out to the reading public. But Crime Fiction Lover has your back, debutants…
The Fox
The Fox is Sólveig Pálsdóttir’s first book translated into English. With its grey, gloomy and unpredictable landscape and equally dark plot it is a prime example of the Nordic noir novels readers have grown to love. When Sajee Gunawardena finds herself desperate and without work…
Interview: Peter Hain talks about the Rhino Conspiracy
Born in Kenya and raised in South Africa, Peter Hain moved to the UK in the 1970s and became a leading anti-apartheid activist. In the 1990s, he was elected MP for Neath in South Wales and later rose through the ranks in Tony Blair’s government…
The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir
Translated by Quentin Bates — The Fox has the perfect mix of the elements readers have grown to love, expect and even demand from Nordic noir novels. In this crime-in-translation debut by Sólveig Pálsdóttir the landscape and characters are grey, gloomy and unpredictable. The plot…
The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
The work of Aussie authors is beginning to crowd many a crime fiction lover’s bookshelf and eReader – and with names like Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Helen FitzGerald in the mix, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Is there room for a wee one…