Historical crime fiction

The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

12 September, 2023

It’s been nearly 12 years since we reviewed The Cold Cold Ground, the first novel in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series. For reasons that baffle us, books like Rain Dogs, Gun Street Girl and I Hear the Sirens in the Street have been successful with…

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Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara

By Sharon Richardson

23 August, 2023

Canada and the United States both share a dark period of history that happened during World War II. Citizens of Japanese descent were ordered to give up their homes and businesses and sent to live in internment camps with harsh living conditions. In 2021, the…

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The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan

By RoughJustice

9 August, 2023

The Continental Affair tells the story of two strangers, initially adversaries, but eventually lovers, both trying to escape their pasts. It is set in the 1960s, and Algerians are rising up against their French colonial rulers. Henri used to work for the police force. It…

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The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

By Paul Burke

27 July, 2023

They say that history has been largely told by men, but over the past few years crime writers have been throwing light on a hidden past, where women have the starring roles on both sides of the law. The Housekeepers by Alex Hay is an…

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The doctor will see you now... Kate Griffin

By crimefictionlover

11 July, 2023

Continuing her series of vodcasts talking to crime fiction authors of all descriptions, Dr Noir returns to our site and with her this time is the English historical crime author Kate Griffin. Watch the video below, in which the pair discuss Kate’s latest book, Fyneshade,…

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Incident at San Miguel by AJ Sidransky

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 July, 2023

In the 1930s, with war clouds massing, many European Jews immigrated to Cuba, which welcomed them, gave them safe haven, and encouraged their businesses to thrive. Many did very well, reaching the upper middle class. In 1959, Fidel Castro’s communist revolution came and the US-backed…

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The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry

By Paul Burke

29 June, 2023

Former Reuters journalist Freya Berry made a big splash last year with her exceptional debut thriller, The Dictator’s Wife. Inspired by the lives of women married to powerful men, it became a Between The Covers pick on BBC Two and a critical and commercial success….

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Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

By DeathBecomesHer

26 June, 2023

Chris Brookmyre and his wife Dr Marisa Haetzman took that old adage of ‘write what you know’ to heart when they came up with The Way of all Flesh, first in a series of historical crime novels set in Victorian Edinburgh. Brookmyre, after all, is…

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The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara

The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan

The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

The doctor will see you now... Kate Griffin

Incident at San Miguel by AJ Sidransky

The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry

Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

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