When I was in middle school, a new Barnes & Noble opened shop in my hometown. I was so excited to have a somewhere to shop for books that I made my dad drive me there during the opening weekend. Dad grumbled, but I reminded him that I could be using my allowance to buy
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Arriving on the Channel 4 streaming service Walter Presents from 6 December, A Very Scandi Scandal offers a different perspective on Nordic noir with a hilarious Stockholm-based heist. Rather than bagging awards for suspense or drama, here’s a show that won Best Comedy at Sweden’s Kristallen Awards earlier this year and now we’ll be able
Marvel Comics is one of the most recognizable names in comics. Thanks to them, superheroes like Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel exist, in addition to groups like the X-Men, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Avengers. The comics characters are beloved by fans of all ages. Who hasn’t seen someone wearing a Marvel costume
Written by Bill Rapp — Former diplomat and US Government analyst Bill Rapp has brought his wealth of experience and research skills to bear in The Budapest Escape, third in a series of Cold War thrillers. The novel is set in Vienna and Budapest in 1956 when Hungary experience a revolution, the first major reaction
Superheroes and comic book characters have been having a moment for a while now, with new movie and TV adaptions around every corner. Recently, more comics have been adapted into long-form novels and series by new and well-known authors. As a reader, I personally prefer novels over comics and graphic novels, but I love catching
Written by Max Allan Collins — As noted in his afterword, since returning to writing his Quarry novels in 2006, author Max Allan Collins has written them out of sequence, jumping around from time to time. This latest novel takes place in the mid-70s, after the events of Quarry’s Deal and before Quarry’s Vote. For
If you’re suddenly surrounded by babies this holiday season (it me) or are raising your own comics-lovin’ geek, you’ve come to the right place. From Batman to Baby Groot, these are the best baby gifts for comic geeks for the 2019 holiday season. There’s less of a focus on outfits and artwork, and more on
Written by Abir Mukherjee — The acclaimed Wyndham and Banerjee historical crime series returns with a fourth instalment. Was it really in 2016 that The Rising Man introduced us to Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surrender-not Banerjee? Most recently Wyndham was caught in the angry turmoil of rebellion in India in Smoke and Ashes. Author
DC Comics is home to the oldest and most iconic superheroes in the world. But which DC superhero are you most like? Are you a big blue Boy Scout, a felonious feline, or the King of the Sea? Take the quiz below to find out! Which DC Superhero Are You? Still curious about your superheroic
On the Radar — This week our new crime books column features the latest from Nicolas Obregon, a writer who sets his mysteries in Japan. He’s sending detective Iwata on the trail of an Unknown Male. We’re also bringing you a new political thriller by Simon Kernick, a futuristic thriller by Roderick Hart, and Mark
Every year at around this time, an onslaught of feel-good movies seem to be perpetually airing on the Hallmark Channel (and its sister channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries). These movies stick rigidly to a now-familiar formula in which snowball fights, sipping hot chocolate while strolling down a picturesque street, and almost-but-not-actually kissing are fundamental steps
Written by Samuel Bjork, translated by Charlotte Barslund — Mia Krüger and Holger Munch are back in a much anticipated third instalment of Samuel Bjork’s riveting crime series set in Oslo, Norway. Munch headed the prestigious Special Unit in Mariboesgate for just over 10 years and managed to put together a specialist team of Norway’s
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Written by George Weinstein — Bo Riccardi is a big noise in web broadcasting. She’s adept at interviewing and her incisive style has earned her the nickname of the Barracuda at On-Air Radio in Atlanta, Georgia. Bo has interviewed everyone from politicians to artists, and today’s subject is an author who has just completed his
What if the human race was considered irrelevant and then each being was just uploaded then locked away on hard drives called “brain pods” ? What if a sub species was to come into fruition, then the human race turned on it, hunted it down before trying to annihilate it? Imagine you found out you
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Written by Martin Cruz Smith — On average, a new Arkady Renko novel only arrives every 4.75 years, so if you’ve read any of Martin Cruz Smith’s previous books featuring the Moscow detective you’ll know that The Siberian Dilemma is a reason to celebrate. Renko is a principled investigator in a system where the law
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One of the best things about the crime fiction genre is the passion of the authors working in it. They put no end of research into their books and will read the classics of the genre over and over again in order to learn from the best. Sometimes, they get hooked on it, diving so
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Of course we’ll call out cheating in crime novels whenever possible, such as when authors use the supernatural as a get-out at the end of a mystery. However, do feel free to call us hypocrites when we say we also love a crime story tinged with some Lovecraftian horror. That’s what we’ve got here with
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Written by Nicola Upson — Those who enjoy Nicola Upson’s series featuring unconventional crime writer Josephine Tey, cast as a detective, will be used to the celebrated playwright and crime writer moving in glamorous circles in 1930s London theatreland and hobnobbing with the likes of film director Alfred Hitchcock. In this eighth outing for Tey we
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On the Radar — Martin Cruz Smith is one of the most influential American crime authors, and instead of setting his books in the Big Apple or Los Angeles, his preeminent series is set in Russia and features the worn-down detective Arkady Renko. It’s six years since the last Renko novel, but at last The
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Written by Phil Kurthausen — This fast, fun, thriller set in Barcelona is strikingly of the moment, featuring both the Catalan independence movement and the seductive power of Instagram influencers. Meredith is an American woman with a secret. She has lived in many different places under a number of names, never settling, always looking over
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