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CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour

2 December, 2017

Edited by Martin Edwards — If you are planning a virtual escape to far-off lands over Christmas, this is a great collection of adventurous short stories to take with you. But, expect to be chilled, even when trekking in the heat of South Africa, dipping your toes…

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NTN: Discover your new favourite crime author

By Vicki Weisfeld

15 November, 2017

Whether you read a few books a year or several a week, your reading time is precious. Review sites like Crime Fiction Lover have become so popular because we help readers quickly and reliably find good books and new, fresh authors. Whether your favourite crime…

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First look: Alive in Shape and Color

By crimefictionlover

11 November, 2017

We’ll be honest. Short stories don’t often set the place on fire here at Crime Fiction Lover. Most readers are more interested in novels and our reviews of anthologies aren’t always very popular. But that wasn’t the case with In Sunlight or In Shadow, the…

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A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

By Catherine Turnbull

7 October, 2017

Written by Ruth Rendell — These previously uncollected or new short stories are a masterclass in how to deliver psychological suspense in domestic settings and an antidote to some publishers’ current zeal for packaging and claiming grip-lit and domestic noir as a nearly-new phenomenon. Although Ruth…

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The Allingham Casebook

By nagaisayonara

18 June, 2017

Written by Margery Allingham — Writing a short story is like packing for a low cost holiday. When you’ve got a limit on how much you can put in, you have to make choices. You have to make sacrifices. This collection of 18 stories by Golden…

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Busted! Arresting Stories from the Beat

By MarinaSofia

15 June, 2017

Edited by Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler and Shawn Reilly Simmons — This is a crime fiction anthology written by or featuring law enforcement professionals, mostly in the United States. There is something for everyone in this eclectic mix of 31 stories, offering a cross section…

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Dis Mem Ber

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 June, 2017

Written by Joyce Carol Oates – This collection of mostly longish short stories features Oates’s sly humour and penchant for the off-kilter. There’s something just a little bit obsessive, just a little wrong about many of the protagonists who appear. Sometimes, there’s a lot wrong. Someplace along…

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No Middle Name

By Catherine Turnbull

20 May, 2017

Written by Lee Child — Jack Reacher is no slouch when it comes to leaping in the saddle to right wrongs and joust with the wicked in Lee Child’s full-length novels. In this book of whip-cracking tales the short story form spurs on the action to…

Crime Fiction Lover

CWA Anthology of Short Stories: Mystery Tour

NTN: Discover your new favourite crime author

First look: Alive in Shape and Color

A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

The Allingham Casebook

Busted! Arresting Stories from the Beat

Dis Mem Ber

No Middle Name

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