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True Crime Story is Joseph Knox’s fourth novel. It’s his first standalone after three instalments of his urban noir series featuring Detective Constable Aidan Watts of Greater Manchester Police. The ‘true’ in the title and the ‘novel’ in the subtitle immediately establish a tension between fact and fiction and the relationship between the two is

How is already time for new Pulitzer Prize winners??? Time goes by so fast — it has been 13 months since the 2020 announcements. And as it was last year, the the Pulitzer Prize board once again decided to postpone the 2021 award winners’ announcement. This year it was so that the 18 members of

This week our new crime books column gets started with a bestseller from Germany by the country’s new star writer, Romy Hausmann. We’ve also got senseless crimes in Southampton, the new Skelfs novel by Doug Johnstone, a novel from Downton Abbey’s Catherine Steadman and an all-action CIA agent thriller by David Ricciardi. It’s a good

This summer, Netflix will roll out three Fear Street movies over three consecutive weeks in July, based on the book series by R.L. Stine. The trailer is finally here, and fans of the teen book series should start getting pumped (with the eerie “I Will Survive” from the trailer in the background). [embedded content][embedded content]

Mike Craven certainly knows how to open a novel. The first chapter of Black Summer, from earlier in the Tilly and Poe series, still sticks in my mind and makes me cringe. Dead Ground is the English author’s latest and it features a doozy too. Deep in a hi-tech bank vault, a gang of thieves

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Kate Winslet, the star of Titanic, is probably not the first actress that comes to mind when you think about who might play a hockey mom-style detective working for a small-town police department in Eastern Pennsylvania. But dressed in sweats and constantly vaping, she pulls it off perfectly as Mare Sheehan in HBO’s recent crime

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Will Carver’s literary thriller has more than a dollop of devilish doings. The author’s last few novels such as Good Samaritans, Nothing Important Happened Today and Hinton Hollow Death Trip have loosely or more closely focused on the work of his darkly troubled police detective DS Pace, but here Carver cuts a new furrow with

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The President’s Daughter is the second collaboration between former US president Bill Clinton and crime novelist James Patterson. The former was elected twice in the 1990s to lead his country, and the latter is in many ways a vote-winner as well. For example, James Patterson has been the most-borrowed author in UK libraries every year

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Typically, we don’t collect statistics here at Crime Fiction Lover. We like forensics but we’re not forensic, so to speak. But if you asked which author is cited as an influence the most by crime writers we’ve interviewed, it would probably be James Ellroy. Whether you love or loath his down and dirty scat-like prose,

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Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the Booker International Prize has announced its 2021 winner, At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop, translated from French by Anna Moschovakis. BBC’s Colleen Harris hosted the virtual ceremony from Coventry Cathedral as part of Coventry’s UK City of Culture celebrations. The

Crime fiction lovers of a certain vintage will recall the “Evenin’ all” of Dixon of Dock Green and the bordering-on-the-twee cosiness of Heartbeat. Both these British television series featured coppers with a keen local knowledge and a sometimes trying beat. Leaping across decades and continents, these days Australian cop Constable Paul Hirschhausen has stepped neatly

In the past month, Israel’s illegal dispossession of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah has led to increased tensions and violence in Palestine. Israeli forces have deployed tear gas, smoke grenades, and rubber bullets on praying citizens at a mosque during Ramadan. Residential buildings, the headquarters of the Associated Press, Gaza’s only COVID-19 testing lab, hospitals, schools,

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This is the third Joe the Bouncer novel, following on from The Bouncer (2018) and The Hard Stuff (2019). Joe Brody is indeed a bouncer. But as well as working the door at a New York strip club Joe does a lot of things. His classified history in the military left him with some serious

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‘Collaboration’ is a buzz word in technology and the creative industries at the moment, and it seems to be the in thing in crime fiction too. It’s something that has made crime author James Patterson one of the most popular authors in the English language. Of all his collaborations, none has been bigger than working

Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, passed away on May 23, 2021 in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was 91 years old. From the Eric Carle Team: It is with heavy hearts that we share that Eric Carle, author & illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and many other beloved classics, passed away on 23rd

The prolific Garry Disher is a huge name in his native Australia – he’s won the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award, and has had many fellow crime fiction writers citing him as a major influence. At last, the rest of the world is catching on too, and his recent releases featuring troubled rural cop Paul Hirschhausen have garnered

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Some crime books have you hiding behind the cushions, while others make you cringe and shut your eyes in disgust… In a first for this reviewer, The Waiter made me hungry! Seems appropriate, then, that for the book’s online launch party, a number of reviewers (including yours truly) were invited by the publishers to a