Interview: Tim Weaver
Back when we started Crime Ficiton Lover, one of the first books we got in to review was The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver. I wanted to read that one because Tim and I used to work for the same company and I thought it…
Rush of Blood
Written by Mark Billingham — Florida. The budget beach resort of Pelican Palms. Three couples from suburban London become acquainted while taking an Easter break. Amidst the Pina Coladas, oversized meal portions and sunburn, and on the eve of their departure, the teenage daughter of…
Interview: Steven Dunne
Journalist turned teacher Steven Dunne writes some of the smartest serial killer novels around right now. Literate, complex and thoroughly absorbing, they’re must reads for fans of Mark Billingham or Thomas Harris. His third book, Deity, is out now and Steven was kind enough to…
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
Stephen King made headlines a month ago when Hard Case Crime announced that they would be publishing his novel Joyland in June 2013. Joyland is an eagerly anticipated release, but it is not King’s first novel for Hard Case Crime. In 2005, the hardboiled imprint…
Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
Written by Andrew Cotto – Outerborough Blues is a mystery embedded in a lyrical tale of urban loss. Despite being billed as ‘a Brooklyn mystery’ and ‘urban noir’, the mystery is only one aspect of Andrew Cotto’s novel. This isn’t a whodunit. Instead, the author…
Dying in the Wool
Written by Frances Brody — Frances Brody is the pen name of the experienced and award-winning novelist and playwright Frances McNeil. Dying in the Wool is the first in the series of Kate Shackleton mysteries, set amongst the cloth mills of West Yorkshire during the…
NTN: The Office of Lost and Found by Vincent Holland-Keen
Coming in at over 500 pages, The Office of Lost and Found is a novel unlike anything you are likely to read this year. Probably next year as well. It’s staggeringly different to anything else I’ve read since picking up a copy of a Douglas…
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
This book comes from American author Laura Lippman – a newspaper reporter turned detective fiction writer. She was raised in Baltimore, a city with a strong connection to Edgar Allen Poe, arguably the inventor of the genre we enjoy so much. This city provides the…