Historical crime fiction

Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

By DeathBecomesHer

20 December, 2024

In a world populated by off-kilter characters, it takes a certain something to make a protagonist memorable for a crime fiction reader. For me there are just a handful that stick out – Elizabeth in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing, for example; Liz Nugent’s Strange…

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White City by Dominic Nolan

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

18 December, 2024

Dominic Nolan’s White City is a gritty, evocative story set in 1950s London, a city in ruins after World War II. While many crime novels set in the city focus on the East End, here we’re up west, in and around Notting Dale, Soho, White…

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Five of the best crime series set in Ancient Rome

By crimefictionlover

5 November, 2024

The upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator looks brutal to man and beast alike. It arrives in cinemas on 15 November, but we think crime fiction lovers interested in Ancient Rome might be drawn to something a little more… subtle. Here to help us is…

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Precipice by Robert Harris

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 September, 2024

Robert Harris launched his career writing fiction with Fatherland in 1992, speculative historical piece that looked at what might have happened had the Nazis won World War II. For over 30 years, his historical thrillers and espionage novels have gained a huge following. In his…

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The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

By RoughJustice

5 August, 2024

Kansas author Scott Phillips’s first novel, The Ice Harvest, was a critical and commercial hit in 2000. A movie adaptation, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, was released in 2005. It’s also by some distance his most conventional crime novel, and since then Phillips…

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The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

By Erin Britton

4 July, 2024

It’s October 1944 and all is far from well in the Republic of Salò. As the last bastion of Fascism in Italy, the tranquil setting on the shore of Lake Garda belies the turmoil currently engulfing the seat of the German-backed puppet government. As the…

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Jack the Ripper returns in mystery thriller

By crimefictionlover

13 June, 2024

The new crime fiction series The Ripper Lives takes readers inside a high-stakes Victorian-era murder investigation, and today we’re joined by a fine gentleman called Gerard Edmund Snook for a look at what’s in store… The investigators tasked with apprehending Jack the Ripper in author…

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Every Spy A Traitor by Alex Gerlis

By RoughJustice

10 June, 2024

Alex Gerlis is a veteran espionage author with three series already behind him, but with Every Spy a Traitor he launches a new series. This time it’s a classic fish out of water story, similar to those written by Eric Ambler, but with a twist….

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Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

White City by Dominic Nolan

Five of the best crime series set in Ancient Rome

Precipice by Robert Harris

The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

Jack the Ripper returns in mystery thriller

Every Spy A Traitor by Alex Gerlis

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