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Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2022

Anyone who has ever been to York will have been struck by the city’s palpable sense of history. It boasts Roman walls and medieval streets, with the ancient York Minster imperiously towering above it all. But it is more recent occurrences that have inspired Karen…

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Harry Bosch returns in Bosch: Legacy – full preview

By crimefictionlover

15 April, 2022

Harry Bosch, Maddie Bosch and Honey Chandler return to our screens on 6 May in Bosch: Legacy, a spinoff that continues on from Amazon Prime Video‘s seven-season series, revealing a different side to each of these key characters. Premiering free on Freevee via Prime Video,…

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The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 February, 2022

In The Goodbye Coast, author Joe Ide abandons his popular crime-solver Isaiah Quintabe in favour of a 21st century private investigator: Philip Marlowe. Yes, really! Raymond Chandler’s definitive detective has been reinvented by Ide and he’s working on two compelling missing persons cases at once….

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The Pine Barrens Stratagem by Ken Harris

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 February, 2022

In Ken Harris’s new thriller, witty and profane private investigator Steve Rockfish tackles a series of long-hidden crimes that powerful forces are determined should stay under wraps. The prologue is a bit over-long, but provides a chilling history lesson. In the early 1940s, the young…

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The Girl With No Place to Hide by Marvin Albert

By Paul Burke

6 December, 2021

A fast-paced, New York-set hardboiled classic that keeps you guessing to the end, The Girl with No Place to Hide is the third in Albert’s Jake Barrow sextet written under the pseudonym Nick Quarry and originally published in 1959. Hardboiled is usually tight and to…

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Interview: Cynthia von Buhler on Minky Woodcock's encounter with Tesla

By crimefictionlover

18 November, 2021

Cynthia von Buhler has an inspiring range of talents. In addition to writing and performing in immersive theatre productions, she’s a fine artist and a writer, and she illustrates her own crime stories. Her favourite milieu is the early 20th century – a period during…

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The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

10 November, 2021

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love a clever book title, and this one is a case in point. At first glance it seems all too obvious – after all, the main protagonist, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard, is on permanent night duty, working the graveyard…

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IMDb TV, home to the new Bosch spinoff, launches in the UK

By DeathBecomesHer

30 September, 2021

IMDb TV, Amazon’s new premium free streaming service, launched in the UK earlier this week. It will be home to a back catalogue of movies and TV shows – and a number of IMDb TV originals, including the upcoming Bosch spinoff which is currently filming…

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Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton

Harry Bosch returns in Bosch: Legacy – full preview

The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

The Pine Barrens Stratagem by Ken Harris

The Girl With No Place to Hide by Marvin Albert

Interview: Cynthia von Buhler on Minky Woodcock's encounter with Tesla

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

IMDb TV, home to the new Bosch spinoff, launches in the UK

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