murder

Sleeping Dogs

30 June, 2015

Set in and around the Adriatic region, Sleeping Dogs sees Maltese lawyer Spike Sanguinetti tackles another murder case. The action steers back and forth between Corfu and the mysterious and seldom-travelled highways and byways of nearby Albania. Sanguinetti is drawn in to defend a native Corfiote…

iBook Kindle Print Reviews

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Bingham

By DavidPrestidge

27 June, 2015

You can soon tell that Fiona Griffiths isn’t just your average Detective Constable. Firstly, while examining a cold case file concerning a security guard who apparently stumbled to his death from a cliff-top, she takes a particular interest in the photograph of the head injury…

iBook Kindle Print Reviews

Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville

By DavidPrestidge

21 June, 2015

When the police burst their way into the neat Belfast suburban house, after an alarm call from neighbours, they walk straight into a scene from hell. Two children, brothers, clutch each other on the bed, while on the floor is the ruined body of their…

Kindle Print Reviews

In Heaven and In Earth by David Foster

By DavidPrestidge

20 June, 2015

On a wet and wintry night on north London’s Hampstead Heath, a long-buried body of a woman is found by a dog walker. Inspector Sam Cooper realises that there is no need for a hue and cry as the remains have been there for decades….

iBook Kindle Reviews

Officer Involved by Sean Lynch

By DeathBecomesHer

9 June, 2015

Last year here on Crime Fiction Lover, we racked our brains to come up with the top TV crime shows of all time. So why mention it at the start of this review? Simples – it’s because Farrell and Kearns, the central characters in this series,…

Kindle Print Reviews

The Spider in the Corner of the Room by Nikki Owen

By DavidPrestidge

4 June, 2015

Written by a Dublin-born author who now lives in Gloucestershire, this debut novel is the first in the planned Project trilogy. The action begins inside a British women’s prison. By any standard Dr Maria Martinez is just a little bit different. First, she is a…

iBook Kindle Print Reviews

22 Dead Little Bodies by Stuart MacBride

By Keith Nixon

1 June, 2015

Stuart MacBride’s Aberdeen detective Logan McRae isn’t a stranger here on the pages of Crime Fiction Lover. We’ve previously reviewed Shatter the Bones and Close to the Bone. Normally, however, he appears in books that are 400, 500 or 600 pages in length. In January,…

Kindle Print Reviews

A Shadowed Livery by Charlie Garratt

By DavidPrestidge

30 May, 2015

Autumn, 1938. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who is the MP for Edgebaston in Birmingham, has just returned from Munich clutching a piece of paper which, he proclaims, promises peace in our time. Meanwhile, in another part of Birmingham, Detective Inspector James Given watches, ashen faced,…

Crime Fiction Lover

Sleeping Dogs

This Thing of Darkness by Harry Bingham

Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville

In Heaven and In Earth by David Foster

Officer Involved by Sean Lynch

The Spider in the Corner of the Room by Nikki Owen

22 Dead Little Bodies by Stuart MacBride

A Shadowed Livery by Charlie Garratt

Navigation

Recent Comments

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

Categories