French crime fiction

The final series of French crime drama Spiral comes to BBC Four

23 December, 2020

Lovers of French crime fiction will be screaming, “Oui, oui, OUI” in ecstasy come Saturday 2 January, when BBC Four begins airing the final series of Spiral, the outstanding French crime drama. Hailed as the king of crime shows in France, Spiral began in 2005…

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French crime drama The Red Shadows arriving on Channel 4

By crimefictionlover

4 December, 2020

Ah, the Côte d’Azure. Beautiful aqua seas, lovely beaches, dramatic hillsides and warm weather. It’s a region where people go to relax and to party, with big hotels, bars and nightclubs to entertain them. Unfortunately, it’s also a hotbed of drug trafficking and organised crime….

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The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 December, 2020

Translated by Nick Caistor — Welcome to Seine-Saint-Denis, also known as the 93. Forget the iconic Eiffel Tower, a walk along the Seine or the quaint coffee shops that Paris conjures up in your mind. This is the underbelly of Paris, the district with the…

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French mystery show Beyond Appearances comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

19 August, 2020

There’s the fast action of Paris in Spiral and the melancholy wistfulness of Normandy in the wonderful Witnesses. But with Beyond Appearances you’ll discover a French crime show that feels similar to an English country house mystery, with rural France a twist all of its…

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Never Forget by Michel Bussi

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 July, 2020

Translated by Shaun Whiteside — With its release timed to coincide with the UK’s first French Book Week and Bastille Day, Never Forget is French crime author Michel Bussi‘s latest suspense thriller and the fifth to be translated into English. Jamal Salaoui has a goal…

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Wild Dog by Serge Joncour

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 April, 2020

Translated by Jane Aitken & Polly Mackintosh — Novelist and screenwriter Serge Joncour brings us a dual narrative set in a small, rural town high up in the French mountains with Wild Dog, his first novel to appear in English. The year is 2017 and…

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Summer of Reckoning

By Vicki Weisfeld

15 March, 2020

Written by Marion Brunet, translated by Katherine Gregor — Some teenage summers are just too awkward and painful to revisit. In this psychological thriller, which won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, French crime fiction author Marion Brunet expertly describes a summer of that exact…

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First look: Cromwell Stone

By crimefictionlover

7 November, 2019

Of course we’ll call out cheating in crime novels whenever possible, such as when authors use the supernatural as a get-out at the end of a mystery. However, do feel free to call us hypocrites when we say we also love a crime story tinged…

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The final series of French crime drama Spiral comes to BBC Four

French crime drama The Red Shadows arriving on Channel 4

The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek

French mystery show Beyond Appearances comes to Walter Presents

Never Forget by Michel Bussi

Wild Dog by Serge Joncour

Summer of Reckoning

First look: Cromwell Stone

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