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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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A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

By Rafe McGregor

16 August, 2021

Anthony Horowitz is best known for his young adult and television writing, but we find his adult crime fiction much more appealing. Standing out from his peers, he currently has four series underway, all of which are either fiercely original, thoroughly entertaining, or both: his…

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Mammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 July, 2021

Ex-police detective Anita Sundström is back in the eighth of Torquil MacLeod’s Malmö Mysteries series. It’s been a year since Anita resigned from the Skåne County Police and her current job at the Malmö’s tourism office lacks the excitement she thrived on as a police investigator…

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Every City is Every Other City

By RoughJustice

9 July, 2021

Canadian writer John McFetridge has chosen to centre his new series in Toronto’s thriving film production community. Gordon Stewart works as a location scout, and moonlights as a private detective. He accepts a job to look for a missing family member of one of the…

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The Great Silence by Doug Johnstone

By DeathBecomesHer

22 June, 2021

Ah, Edinburgh, a classically beautiful city which combines a love of the arts with some fine architecture. It’s also home to the Skelfs, possibly crime fiction’s only funeral directors-cum-private detectives. And also, it seems, Edinburgh is harbouring a wild beast… Welcome to Doug Johnstone’s decidedly…

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Every City is Every Other City by John McFetridge

By RoughJustice

19 May, 2021

Ontario screenwriter and novelist John McFetridge is best known for the well-crafted, classic, hardboiled fiction which makes up his Toronto and Eddie Dougherty series. In his latest novel, billed as the first Gordon Stewart Mystery, he has tried something different. Every City is Every Other…

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A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

By Paul Burke

13 May, 2021

Jonathan Ames is perhaps best known for his tense and emotionally draining psychological drama You Were Never Really Here, published in 2013. It was his first noir novel and told the story of a man driven by his own childhood trauma to rescue victims of…

Crime Fiction Lover

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

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

A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz

Mammon in Malmö by Torquil MacLeod

Every City is Every Other City

The Great Silence by Doug Johnstone

Every City is Every Other City by John McFetridge

A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

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