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Erin Britton: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Erin Britton

22 May, 2022

The Three Investigators. Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys. The Famous Five. Encyclopedia Brown. Hanging out with that bunch of precocious nosy parkers during my formative years is definitely what started me on the path to a life of crime (fiction). Of all the kid detectives,…

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Era by era - 10 of the best historical crime novels with Barry Forshaw

By crimefictionlover

27 March, 2018

Crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw and Crime Fiction Lover. It’s like a match made in Ancient Babylon… or… something like that, anyway. A book reviewer for the national papers, and an author who has written guidebooks to British, European and Scandinavian crime fiction, Barry Forshaw’s…

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CIS: 10 literary classics that are also crime stories

By MarinaSofia

27 September, 2016

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we don’t care about genre labels as long as a book is well-written, suspenseful and contains a few dead bodies. Other readers seem to feel the same way and crime fiction still sells by the bucketload. Recent reports suggest that His Bloody…

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NTN: The 12 debut novels that changed crime fiction

By crimefictionlover

25 November, 2015

We’ve looked at plenty of brand new crime novels and up-and-coming authors during New Talent November 2015, but now we’re going to look at some books that, when they were first written, sparked changes and new developments in the genre. The entire Crime Fiction Lover…

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Erin Britton: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

Era by era - 10 of the best historical crime novels with Barry Forshaw

CIS: 10 literary classics that are also crime stories

NTN: The 12 debut novels that changed crime fiction

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