A House of Ghosts
Written by WC Ryan — Blackwater Island lies of the Devon Coast. The year is 1917 and the Great War, still raging, has made the already…
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A Gentleman’s Murder
Written by Christopher Huang — The year is 1924. In the Britannia Club, a swanky London gentlemen’s club exclusively for those who served in World War…
Interview: Christopher Huang
If you subscribe to The Rap Sheet, our weekly email newsletter, you’ll have received the first chapter of Christopher Huang’s debut novel, A Gentleman’s Murder,…
CIS: Why Maisie Dobbs is already a classic
Is it paradoxical to call Jacqueline Winspear’s book a classic when it was first published not quite 15 years ago? Though Maisie Dobbs hasn’t acquired…
CIS: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers revisited
Although it wasn’t the first story ever written about spies, The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers can be described…
The German Messenger
Written by David Malcolm — England, December 1916. The most destructive battle in world history has finally ended at the Somme and Europe is in the…
A Pattern of Lies
Written by Charles Todd — In book seven in the Bess Crawford mystery series, Bess works as a World War I field hospital nurse in France,…
The Ends of the Earth
Written by Robert Goddard — This is the concluding part of a trilogy set in the immediate aftermath of World War I. James ‘Max’ Maxted…
The Star of Istanbul
Written by Robert Olen Butler — James Bond has had plenty of literary rivals, none of whom have quite measured up to the British spy, but…
Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box
Written by George Mann — Previously here on Crime Fiction Lover we’ve reviewed The Will of the Dead featuring Sherlock Holmes in a steampunk mystery,…
Hardcastle’s Quartet
Written by Graham Ison — It’s the summer of 1918 and people are tired of a war which was supposed to over by Christmas four…
The best World War I crime fiction
Today marks 100 years since Britain entered World War I. For the next five years, writers, artists and historians from all over the world will…
The Corners of the Globe
Written by Robert Goddard — James ‘Max’ Maxsted is a former RAF pilot who had successfully battled the Germans in the skies above the Western…
Sherlock Holmes – Gods of War
Written by James Lovegrove — Last year we reviewed The Stuff of Nightmares, a Holmesian pastiche with science fiction and steampunk elements in which Lovegrove…
Hardcastle’s Traitors
Written by Graham Ison — It is London, on the last day of 1915, a year of almost continuous setbacks for the British Expeditionary Force.…
CIS: The Thirty-Nine Steps
Written by John Buchan — First published in 1915, it’s hard to believe that The Thirty-Nine Steps is nearly 100 years old. It has formed the…