Cast-Iron Men
Written by Dominic Kearney — As 2007 draws to a close, the city of Liverpool looks like a giant building site as it prepares to take centre stage as the 2008 European City of Culture. It’s a huge fillip for a city that has been…
The Killing Pool
The Killing Pool is set in the mean streets of Liverpool, and readers may well find themselves in something of a love/hate/love relationship with the main character, DCI Billy McCartney, as the action shifts back and forth through a variety of timelines. This is not…
Down Among the Dead Men by Ed Chatterton
He has had a long and successful career as a children’s writer under the name Martin Chatterton, but Ed Chatterton is a relative newbie to the crime fiction genre. Down Among The Dead Men is his second crime novel, and it once again features DCI…
NTN: Dead Gone by Luca Veste
Luca Veste was one of the first writers to contribute to Crime Fiction Lover, under the pseudonym GuiltyConscience. I can remember how happy he was when I told him one day that he was ‘a crime fiction machine’. I said it on account of all…
NTN: Luca Veste interviewed
2013 has been a great year for psychological crime fiction, but judging by the publishers lists for 2014 fans of police procedurals will have plenty of treats in store, with some very exciting debuts slated for the spring, including Dead Gone the first offering from…
The Killing Pool
“Welcome to The Killing Pool, a book that’s so dark you may well need a torch to read it.” That’s how DeathBecomesHer began her review of Kevin Sampson’s Liverpool-set novel. The Killing Pool is the first in a series featuring DCI Billy McCartney. We are introduced…
The Killing Pool
Written by Kevin Sampson — Welcome to The Killing Pool, a book that’s so dark you may well need a torch to read it. Set in the mean streets of Liverpool, it features the lowest of lowlifes – and I don’t just mean the criminals. Liverpool…