Historical crime fiction

Interview: Fiona Forsyth

24 March, 2025

Historical crime fiction has always been popular, but in 2025 we’re seeing more of it than ever. If you need an escape from the stresses of watching the news, then authors like Fiona Forsyth have the answer. In her latest novel, Death and the Poet,…

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Dirty Little War by Dietrich Kalteis

By Sharon Richardson

21 March, 2025

There is money to be made during Prohibition in the United States, and Huckabee Waller wants in on the action. He is the central character of Dirty Little War, an epic tale about gangsters in Chicago during the 1920s from Canadian author Dietrich Kalteis. In…

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Midnight Streets by Phil Lecomber

By RoughJustice

20 March, 2025

From the title to the evocative cover showing a man in a trench coat and fedora, everything about Phil Lecomber’s second novel is designed to suggest we are stepping into classic detective fiction. However, the author has swapped the blinding glaze of Raymond Chandler’s LA…

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The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

By crimefictionlover

20 March, 2025

Belinda Bauer is a British crime author with a reputation for writing high quality mysteries driven by unique ideas. This is why her past novels Blacklands (2009), Rubbernecker (2013) and Snap (2018) won four major awards between them, with the latter longlisted for the Man…

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Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 February, 2025

Virginia Feito’s new gothic thriller, Victorian Psycho, has attracted the attention of readers and commentators not only for its originality, but for its in-your-face macabre violence. It’s graphic. It’s bloody. And in this book, the first-person narrator is the serial killer. She doesn’t murder at…

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The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 February, 2025

If you’d like to escape the 21st Century for a romp in late-Victorian London, one in which you don’t really have to take anything too seriously, this entertaining historical crime novel might be just the thing to conquer those January blues. Quinn le Blanc is…

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Queen of Diamonds by Beezy Marsh

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 January, 2025

This is the third in Beezy Marsh’s trilogy inspired by a real-life female shoplifting gang that operated in London in the first half of the 20th century. The first two books, Queen of Thieves and Queen of Clubs, dealt with the gang’s activities during their…

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Nightingale and Co by Charlotte Printz

By Paul Burke

20 January, 2025

Translated by Marina Sofia — A new historical cosy crime set in Cold War West Germany is a welcome start to the new year, particularly as this is a period and place more commonly seen through the darker lens of espionage fiction. It’s 1961 and…

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Interview: Fiona Forsyth

Dirty Little War by Dietrich Kalteis

Midnight Streets by Phil Lecomber

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay

Queen of Diamonds by Beezy Marsh

Nightingale and Co by Charlotte Printz

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