As many fans of Sherlock Holmes know, Arthur Conan Doyle had a real-life inspiration when he created the world’s most famous fictional detective. His muse was Joseph Bell, the surgeon who taught Conan Doyle when the future author was a medical student in Edinburgh. In Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, author Lindsey
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In his new historical crime novel, Through Many Dangers, Texas author Thomas Goodman has taken the skeleton of a true story and, from it, created a cast of fully fleshed-out fictional characters. His protagonist is Richard Burleson, a Methodist preacher who, in 1905, makes his way with his young family by horse-drawn wagon to a
Ready or not, the season of Best Books of the Year lists has arrived. As usual, Barnes & Noble is leading the pack. It feels a little early to say farewell to 2026, especially when so many buzzy books are out in October, but here we are. Barnes & Noble has named their picks for
Welcome to Crime Fiction Lover’s weekly news roundup. In our latest edition, we’ve got a great mix of new crime novels for you to discover including books by the authors Adam Plantinga, Chris Dolley, Heleyne Hammersley, Aleksander Szeser, Alysandra Dutton and Sarah Reynolds. Settings range from South Dakota to Wessex to prehistoric Rome… Dark Country


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For most people, what you feel at Christmastime and what you feel when there’s been a murder lie at the opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. Perhaps here at Crime Fiction Lover we’re not quite normal because we have no mixed feelings at all, at least not when the murder is fictional. We just love
Want to turn an ordinary T-shirt into a work of art? Or create a lasting message for yourself or others? All you need is some basic supplies and Ciara LeRoy’s Lettered in Thread: Creative Techniques for Designing and Embroidering Meaningful Messages. LeRoy, founder of the Cincinnati-based Pretty Strange Design, is an artist specializing in hand-lettering
During a tough time, my cousin surprised me with a care package that included a fabulous homemade card, and the personal touch provided me with a much-needed boost. You, too, can create similar gifts with Martina Calvi’s The Art of Snail Mail: 20 Mail Art Craft Projects for Crafting Connection. For adults and children alike,
As the creator of Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne is associated with honey pots, heffalumps and bouncing tigers, not country house murders. In fact, today – 14 October 2026 – marks the centenary of the beloved bear’s arrival, which is very charming too, although it doesn’t concern us here at Crime Fiction Lover so much.
The trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has arrived. Greta Gerwig’s highly-anticipated Netflix film premieres in theaters on February 12, and the trailer reveals more than we’ve seen yet of her spin on the first story in the Narnia chronology. Watch it here: Here are my first impressions: “Stairway to Heaven”? Tell me it’s rock
Agatha Christie’s formidable Miss Marple has been solving crimes for generations, relying on observation, experience and an unnerving understanding of human nature. So handing her over to Lucy Foley, a writer best known for atmospheric contemporary thrillers such as The Guest List, was an interesting proposition. But Foley contributed to Marple: Twelve Stories, a collection
In Elizabeth Hand’s seductive, slow-burning gothic novel Unspeakable Things, 18-year-old Olivia Madden enjoys a privileged yet precarious life in the 1920s. She’s the neglected daughter of Peter, a closeted, once famous actor whose career has long been in decline and now lives at Kerrith Hall, a rented, understaffed estate on the Cornish moors. Despite living
It’s fascinating to learn about the inspirations for and driving forces behind cultural icons, and Serling: A Journey Into the Twilight Zone With TV’s First Visionary provides that kind of in-depth education. Before Alan Sepinwall began writing his insightfully presented chronicle of Rod Serling’s extraordinary life, he “worried that I wasn’t enough of a Serling


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Jack Reacher is going strong with season four of the show starring Alan Ritchson arriving on Amazon Prime recently – plus a spinoff in Neagley. Now here on Crime Fiction Lover we bring you news of the latest novel in Lee Child’s epic series. We know this will kick off some it’s-not-the-same comments as the
Ever since David McCloskey arrived with his debut espionage novel Damascus Station in 2021, we’ve looked forward to the next, and the next. It was followed by Moscow X, The Seventh Floor and The Persian, and the former CIA analyst has earned a reputation as a terrific author of spy novels, joining the new breed


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Having written plays, philosophy and award-winning essays, Raúl Quintana Selleras is a talented Cuban American author who has gravitated towards crime fiction as a new vehicle to explore some of the bigger questions we face as individuals, and as a society. The entertainment we get from reading mysteries and thrillers is obvious, but for Raúl
Halloween and crime fiction are a devilishly good pairing. When the nights draw in, the leaves start to fall and the shadows seem just a little longer than usual, there’s something joyful about settling down with a good murder mystery, preferably somewhere warm and with the lights on. On the one hand, some enjoy the
Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club) continues his winning lighthearted mystery ways with We Chase Shadows, a sequel to We Solve Murders. While The Thursday Murder Club series features four sleuths who have banded together in a retirement home, the We Solve Murders mysteries spotlight an unlikely trio who, in book two, have formed a


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Say it ain’t so, Joe! After 36 years and 15 novels (not to mention short stories, graphic novels and a TV series), Edgar Award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale is retiring his indomitable duo, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. At Petrified Dreams’ opening, the two are already retired from the detective business, or so they think.
In 2024, artificial general intelligence researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term “jagged intelligence” for AI. “What he meant,” writes Kevin Roose, “was that AI systems could be astonishingly brilliant in some ways and astonishingly dumb in others.” Two years later, it’s hard to imagine more fortuitous timing for Roose’s The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story
“To me, the uncanny isn’t defined by fear. It’s about objects with shadow, undocumented history, the past and other lives.” That’s how author and photographer Mark C. O’Flaherty describes his aesthetic in Sanctum: At Home With the Uncanny, a book that celebrates eccentric collections of objects and the moody, luxurious interiors where they reside. A
You couldn’t ask for a better examination of the significance of Black quiltmaking than Stories in the Seams: A People’s History of Black Quilts and Their Makers. As the writer of Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles and editor of Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilts in the American South, New Orleans-based scholar Sharbreon
They say that older men like nothing better than to potter in their sheds. But what about older women? Well, hopefully their shed activities are a lot less… um… visceral than those of Brenda, the antihero at centre stage in Warm Bodies, the new novella from John Marrs. Officially released on 1 November 2026, it’s
Partita is, in a way, a love story, though the central love in question is not for a person, but for classical piano. Livia Bohusz grows up on a dairy farm in rural east Tennessee, her most prized possession a copy of the key to the local church where she practices piano day after day.
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