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The King’s Agent by Rosemary Hayes

By Erin Britton

28 July, 2025

November 1808. The return to England following service in the Peninsula War has not been a welcome one for former Captain Will Fraser. Having lost his commission and been drummed out of his regiment on trumped-up charges of cowardice and insubordination, he has naught to…

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Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 May, 2025

Translated by Amy Bojang — Fifteen years since it was published, German author Leonie Swann’s detective thriller Big Bad Wool has finally been translated into English. It’s the follow-up to Swann’s popular mystery Three Bags Full, which itself has appeared in over 30 languages and…

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Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 November, 2024

Translated by Frank Wynne — Crime Fiction Lovers already recognise that Pierre Lemaitre is a master of the thriller whose books can be hard, unsettling and downright violent at times – such as his Camille Verhoeven novels. So don’t be fooled by the cosy-style cover…

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A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

By Paul Burke

11 October, 2024

Graeme Macrae Burnet is best known for his second novel, His Bloody Project, which saw huge commercial success in 2016. A dark anatomy of a 19th century Highland murder case that devastated a crofting community, it seemed a world away from his debut novel, The…

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Interview: Ian Moore

By crimefictionlover

10 October, 2024

On the stage, Ian Moore is a standup comedian with a witty repertoire of humorous commentary that pokes fun at all areas of life. After moving to the Loire Valley in France, he eventually naturalised as a French citizen and, spending more time away from…

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A classic revisited: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker

By Vicki Weisfeld

30 April, 2024

Millions of UK and US readers have basked in the sunny French countryside via the books by the late Peter Mayle, author of 1989’s A Year in Provence. If you’re one of them, then the more recently written Bruno, Chief of Police series by Martin…

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Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont

By Paul Burke

27 February, 2024

There seems to have been a spike in the number of ex-intelligence officers writing espionage novels recently – and they know what they’re talking about. Among them are David McCloskey and IS Berry in America, and James Wolff and Charles Beaumont in Britain. Dark Arena…

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French crime drama I Killed My Husband comes to More4

By crimefictionlover

12 May, 2023

“Killed my husband. I am a monster.” Never say this when detained by the French police. It’s just one of several mistakes made by Anna Viera, played by Erika Sainte, in the riveting new French crime series I Killed My Husband, arriving on More4 in…

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The King’s Agent by Rosemary Hayes

Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann

Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre

A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Interview: Ian Moore

A classic revisited: Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker

Dark Arena by Jack Beaumont

French crime drama I Killed My Husband comes to More4

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