The Team is back as Euro crime returns to Walter Presents
When cross-border collaboration is needed to crack a case, Europol forms a team of detectives from different countries – and that’s exactly what happens after the violent opening sequences of The Team season 2, which will begin airing on UK channel More4 and Walter Presents…
Blood Song
With Blood Song, Johana Gustawsson not only succeeds in writing a riveting crime story with multiple twists, turns and surprises, but she also manages to skilfully weave an atrocious part of Spain’s history into the storyline. When a family is brutally murdered in their home…
Metropolis
Written by Philip Kerr — The tragic passing of Philip Kerr last year means that Metropolis is the last book in his hugely popular historical crime series featuring the German detective Bernie Gunther. You can read a full rundown on the series here, and if…
A Guide to Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series
The death of Philip Kerr in 2018 was a tragic loss for the crime fiction world. The author of over 30 books since his debut in 1989, Kerr is best known for his 14 novels novels featuring ex-cop turned private detective Bernhard ‘Bernie’ Gunther, who…
The Crimson Rivers - new French crime drama
Channel 4’s foreign crime drama service Walter Presents has announced plans to stream the French procedural crime show The Crimson Rivers. The first episode will air on More4 from 9pm on Friday 11 January, with the full first series available to stream on Walter Presents….
A tribute to Philip Kerr
Crime fiction lovers were stunned and saddened to learn yesterday of the death of Philip Kerr, one of the UK’s leading authors of historical crime fiction. Born in Scotland and a graduate of the University of Birmingham, Kerr was a copywriter with the advertising agency…
Blue Night by Simone Buchholz
Translated by Rachel Ward — Chastity Riley, once a hotshot state prosecutor, has suffered a demotion after bringing down one of her superiors on corruption charges. As Blue Night opens, Chastity is trying to make sense of her new life working in a dull witness…