Do you believe?
On the Radar — There’s a bit of a religious theme emerging among some of the books in this week’s new crime fiction report. In Martyn Waites’ latest, ancient Celtic beliefs come to the fore, while we could probably make a convent-ional joke about nuns…
CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2017
Is it too negative to say that 2017 was not a sizzler for crime fiction? The much anticipated film version of Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman arrived on the silver screen and didn’t quite capture the thrilling edge that the books convey. Murder on the Orient…
A Stab in the Dark returns
Award-winning crime writer Mark Billingham has returned to the world of podcasts this week, hosting a new series investigating the worlds of crime fiction and TV crime drama. Produced by UKTV, this is the second series in which Billingham will interview leading names in print and…
Bloody Scotland crime festival revelations
Bloody Scotland has announced its line up of crime-writing suspects and is staging its gala opening of the annual crime festival this year in Stirling Castle. The event takes place 8 to 10 September, and the winner of the McIlvanney Prize 2017 for the Scottish Crime…
Love Like Blood
Written by Mark Billingham — It must be easy for a series author to fall into a pattern, giving us murder by numbers and keeping an established audience happy with a book a year. But we knew there would be something special about Love Like Blood, Mark…
It's a matter of honour
On the Radar — Social relevance is one of the number one topics discussed by authors at crime fiction festivals these days, particularly with all the populist politics, extremism and injustice going on in the world today. And as subjects go, they don’t come much hotter…
First look: Love Like Blood by Mark Billingham
We had to bring you this the instant we got hold of it. English author Mark Billingham has been through a great deal with his famed detective DI Tom Thorne, but never before have they tackled the gut-wrenching topic of honour killing. Above, you can…