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Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre

By MarinaSofia

9 July, 2017

Translated by Frank Wynne — You might remember Pierre Lemaitre as the author of the heart-pounding, unpredictable and rather graphic trilogy of crime novels Alex, Irene and Camille, winning the CWA International Dagger Award for two of them. Here at Crime Fiction Lover, we instantly adored…

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Fire Damage by Kate Medina

By MarinaSofia

18 March, 2016

Back in 2015, when Kate Medina was known as KT Medina and had just released her debut novel White Crocodile. We had already tagged her as one of the Six women to watch for in 2016. Sure enough, she doesn’t disappoint with her psychological thriller Fire Damage,…

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The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum

By crimefictionlover

4 June, 2014

Translated by James Anderson — “This Inspector Sejer, the policeman who’s leading the Hamsund murder case, hasn’t had a single unsolved murder in his whole career. And he’s over fifty. How about that?” The words, uttered by a daughter who is oblivious to his crimes,…

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The Preacher by Sander Jakobsen

By crimefictionlover

29 December, 2013

The idea of the wicked preacher man is a powerful one in crime fiction and beyond – just think of Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter. However, The Preacher is not about a Bible-thumping baddie. Thorkild Christensen, the unassuming vicar of Roslinge in Denmark,…

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The Outsider by Arlene Hunt

By DeathBecomesHer

24 December, 2013

As the weather begins to thaw after a snowy Christmas in rural Ireland, a search party is methodically checking the soggy fields and pastures, looking for Gully Donovan, who hasn’t been seen for days. The discovery of a body face down in a swollen brook…

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Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

By Andre

10 October, 2013

Having won the CWA Gold Dagger for her audacious 2010 debut Blacklands, about a 12-year-old boy who corresponds with a jailed child killer, Belinda Bauer promised to be one of those writers capable of leading the reader into some unsettling places. She’s done it again…

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Interview: Erin Kelly

By Andre

13 August, 2013

A leading light in the new generation of psychological crime writers, Erin Kelly’s 2010 debut The Poison Tree was praised by Stephen King, who compared its powerful suspense to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The novel about a suburban student who embraces a new bohemian life…

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New Talent November 2012 recap

By crimefictionlover

2 December, 2012

A little over a month ago, we started New Talent November 2012 with a review of Sam Hawken’s Tequila Sunset. During our theme month, we looked at a whole range of new authors and their books – from 1920s hardboiled in Michael Mayo’s debut Jimmy…

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Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre

Fire Damage by Kate Medina

The Murder of Harriet Krohn by Karin Fossum

The Preacher by Sander Jakobsen

The Outsider by Arlene Hunt

Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

Interview: Erin Kelly

New Talent November 2012 recap

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