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Everything’s bigger in Texas: 11 of the best lone star crime novels

Crime fiction expert Craig Sisterson brings us a selection of the very best crime fiction set in the Lone Star State… Texas. A single word…

  • June 8, 2018
  • Published in Features

Top 10 crime novels in disguise – by Stav Sherez

A guest column by crime author Stav Sherez — Recently, I wrote a blog listing the top 10 crime novels you’ve probably never heard of…

  • January 11, 2014
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  • Jack Reacher immortalised in song

    16 Nov 2018

    What do you get for the crime fiction lover who has everything? How about Just the Clothes on My Back by the American roots rock…

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    On the Radar — Winter is here in the northern climes of the Crime Fiction Lover HQ. But just think of how cold it is in…

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  • Time for some cybercrime

    10 Nov 2018

    On the Radar — The connected world of the internet, apps, social media and the Dark Web offers the perfect inspiration for contemporary crime authors…

  • A new beginning for David Baldacci

    02 Nov 2018

    On the Radar — The American author David Baldacci is starting a new series. The author has already written five series with protagonists ranging from…

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  • Season seven of Beck comes to BBC Four

    29 Oct 2018

    The Swedish crime series Beck, based on the Martin Beck novels by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, is returning to BBC Four more than 20…

  • Hello, is that Vlad? Vlad the Inhaler?

    26 Oct 2018

    On the Radar — Missing girls, dead children, serial killers, the broken detective… Crime fiction has its clichés, for sure. But our favourite genre always…

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  • Pieces of Her

    An engaging standalone from Karin Slaughter, who has gained quite a reputation for her tricksy psychological thrillers. A mother and daughter are having a low-key…

  • Charlesgate Confidential

    Scott Von Doviak’s debut is the complete package. It has ambition. The narrative is split in to three parts, 1946, 1986, and 2014. There is…

  • Tapping the Source

    Surf noir’s up, brah! No Exit Press has reprinted Kem Nunn’s classic California coming of age novel and although it first came out in 1983…

  • The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

    A very original take on crime short stories in this collection by the queen of Barcelona noir, Teresa Solana. Killer grannies, vengeful ghosts, a prehistoric…

  • Breathe

    Literally a breath-taking debut from Dominick Donald, who captures a compelling sense of place and time in a book which is set in smoggy London…

  • Juliet & Romeo, David Hewson Juliet & Romeo

    The ultimate love story is also a crime story at heart, strewn as it is with murders, a gang war, suicides and a dark sense…

  • Bellevue Square

    Doppelgänger themes aren’t all that common in crime fiction, but Canadian author Michael Redhill uses one to beautiful effect in his award-winning novel Bellevue Square.…

  • Palm Beach, Finland

    Who said the Finns didn’t have a sense of humour? Antti Tuomainen’s second foray into black comedy will have you chuckling and wincing almost simultaneously.…

  • Russian Roulette

    Sara Sheridan’s ex-Secret Service backroom girl Mirabelle Bevan is on her sixth investigation in 1950s Brighton and goes undercover when her lover Superintendent Alan McGregor is…

  • The Martian Girl

    Themes of mesmerism and the blurring of identities inhabit this standalone novel from Andrew Martin, author of the Jim Stringer steam detective series. In London…

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