Elizabeth Hand

Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

19 July, 2022

Maine-based author Elizabeth Hand writes widely across the crime fiction and dark fantasy genres. With her crime novels we’ve grown used to cold climate settings, and the Cass Neary series has taken readers from New England to Iceland, across the UK and over to Sweden….

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On the Radar: Ain't seen nothin' like the mighty Flynn

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2022

The Plea, The Liar, Devil’s Advocate, Th1rt3en – Northern Ireland author Steve Cavanagh has dealt an ace with each book we’ve reviewed in his mighty Eddie Flynn series. This week his latest legal thriller, The Accomplice, is blipping wildly on our radar. If you’ve read…

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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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CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2020

By crimefictionlover

29 December, 2020

Isolation. Lockdown. Restrictions. Pandemic. Plandemic. Recession. You don’t need me to tell you that 2020 wasn’t a year brimming with positives. With the challenges we’ve all faced, it’s been difficult to enjoy the darker crime novels that I normally read in quite the same way,…

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The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

16 November, 2020

When we interviewed Elizabeth Hand way back in 2013, the multi-talented author described her crime fiction character Cass Neary as being in a “…self-inflicted emotional lockdown”. It’s an apt phrase with the fourth book in the series arriving in the middle of a pandemic and…

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On the Radar: Five new crime novels – discover your next read

By crimefictionlover

8 October, 2020

From historical crime fiction through to psychological thrillers, adventuresome crime solving and even a puzzle novel, this week’s new books will hopefully tide you over – especially if you’re pinned down by the latest COVID restrictions. Crime fiction is certainly infectious, but we think it’s…

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23 October, 2019

Written by Elizabeth Hand — It is over three years since Elizabeth Hand released a crime novel – 2016’s Hard Light continued her run of the acclaimed Cass Neary series – so the arrival of this standalone historical thriller was greatly welcomed by us and…

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Hard Light by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

1 July, 2016

You know you’re on a weird ride when out of the blue an 11-year-old girl in the story asks, “Do you want to see the dead babies?” That happens about two-thirds of the way into Hard Light, the third Cass Neary novel by American writer…

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Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

On the Radar: Ain't seen nothin' like the mighty Flynn

12 chilling crime reads for Halloween 2021

CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2020

The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand

On the Radar: Five new crime novels – discover your next read

Curious Toys

Hard Light by Elizabeth Hand

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