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The Flatey Enigma

By DavidPrestidge

31 December, 2013

Jeremy Megraw has chosen The Flatey Enigma as his top book choice of 2013. “A mesmerising, ambient mystery with a strange beauty to it,” he says. A body is found in a remote coastal village near the Icelandic town of Flatey, and Kjartan- a minor…

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Interview: Eva Dolan

By crimefictionlover

27 December, 2013

On 2 January, Eva Dolan’s first novel will be released by Harvill Secker. It’s big news for the Essex-based author, and for Crime Fiction Lover. For over two years, she’s been a contributor here on the site as LoiteringWithIntent, and all the while she’s been…

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Crimson Rose by MJ Trow

By MarinaSofia

17 December, 2013

‘Everything or nothing, which is it to be?’ one of the characters asks at one point in MJ Trow’s latest historical novel, Crimson Rose. The author certainly seems to have made the decision to go for broke and throw everything at this story. He has…

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Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

By crimefictionlover

11 December, 2013

Translated by Don Bartlett — Although Cockroaches is the latest Harry Hole book from Jo Nesbo to appear in English, it was actually the second one written in the original Norwegian. It fits in between The Bat and The Redbreast, if you’re a stickler for…

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The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood

By MarinaSofia

6 December, 2013

Big cities are anonymous places and it’s all too easy to pass unobserved, even among neighbours. This is the theme explored by Alex Marwood in her eagerly anticipated second novel, a standalone thriller which promises to be every bit as gripping as her much-praised debut…

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Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon

By MarinaSofia

3 December, 2013

Translated by David Bellos — ‘Apparent age 32, height 169 cm…’ Thus begins the first ever Maigret novel by Simenon, published in serial form in France in 1930 and translated into English originally as Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett. Now with the title Pietr the…

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Morning Frost by James Henry

By DavidPrestidge

30 November, 2013

This is the third in a series of prequels featuring a younger William ‘Jack’ Frost. The author of the original Frost series, RD Wingfield, died in 2007 but in 2011 James Henry (a pseudonym for James Gurbutt and Henry Sutton) wrote First Frost and followed…

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NTN: Dead Gone by Luca Veste

By crimefictionlover

29 November, 2013

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…

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The Flatey Enigma

Interview: Eva Dolan

Crimson Rose by MJ Trow

Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood

Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon

Morning Frost by James Henry

NTN: Dead Gone by Luca Veste

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