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Backwater by James Sallis

24 September, 2026

In his novel The Killer is Dying back in 2011, James Sallis considered how a life of crime comes to an end, among other things. Essentially, it looked at a hitman who was not just losing his touch, but slowly losing his battle with a…

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Lie To Me by DS Butler

By RoughJustice

22 September, 2026

Every once in a while, it’s good to read outside of your comfort zone. Personally speaking, I have always been most interested in reading towards the more hard-boiled end of the crime fiction spectrum, for example the gritty realism of Don Winslow’s Cartel series, or…

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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

By Vicki Weisfeld

16 September, 2026

We at Crime Fiction Lover have the pleasure of reading so many brand new crime, mystery and thriller novels each year that we rarely have time to go back and catch up on a book we may have wanted to read, but missed. The God…

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Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson

By Sharon Richardson

16 September, 2026

Canadian Will Ferguson’s latest book Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl is a literary mystery that also touches on other genres that Ferguson has written in, namely travel and humour. He has won Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour multiple times, and an Arthur Ellis Award…

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Surviving the Lie by James Queally

By RoughJustice

19 August, 2026

For the final book in his Russell Avery trilogy, Los Angeles Times investigative journalist James Queally returns to New Jersey – the Garden State – with a story which couldn’t be more topical or timely. The series has been dubbed ‘turnpike noir’ after the famous…

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The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani

By DeathBecomesHer

27 June, 2026

The Hollow Boys is a book that lives under a perpetual cloud. From the get go, this compelling example of Southern gothic is a darkly depressing read – but one that I found increasingly hard to let out of my clenched fingers. Forget cosy crime…

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Meet the author: James Ellson

By crimefictionlover

24 June, 2026

Policing is an incredibly difficult job and, often, the drama and trauma we read about in the pages of crime novels are a reflection of real life. Crime author James Ellson’s career is a case in point. Today he writes crime novels full of action…

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The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 June, 2026

Translated by Kristian London — Finnish-born writer Satu Rämö has lived in Iceland for 20 years and won the 2025 Petrona Award for The Clues in the Fjord, the debut in her Hildur series. In the fourth of the series, she returns with a dark…

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Backwater by James Sallis

Lie To Me by DS Butler

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Officer Shimada and the Disappearing Girl by Will Ferguson

Surviving the Lie by James Queally

The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani

Meet the author: James Ellson

The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

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