When criminals get on the move, that’s when things get wild, which is why we love nothing more than a road-trip novel and the Northern Irish author Stuart Neville has cooked up a doozy to get us rolling this week. Every book on the docket... The post On the Radar: Nothin’ beats a road trip first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

It’s great to see female protagonists front and centre in modern spy thrillers and British agent Emma Makepeace is a case in point. First appearing in The Chase last year, she literally hit the ground running while dodging bullets as she fought to keep herself... The post The Trap by Ava Glass first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Every year, the Yorkshire town of Harrogate hosts one of the UK’s biggest book events – the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Whether you were there this year or followed proceedings from afar, it’s clear that books were the heroes. We try our best... The post Our post-Harrogate 2024 reading list… first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Bestselling Canadian author Linwood Barclay often writes about contemporary issues, exploring the things that trouble us through crime fiction. For example, in Look Both Ways he concocted a plot about self-driving cars, and in Find You First we meet a tech billionaire who has everything... The post I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Trevor Wood gained a legion of followers with his Jimmy Mullen trilogy, which began with The Man on the Street. His homeless protagonist got readers thinking about the way society treats its poorest people and how their vulnerability places them at risk of crime and... The post The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Sub-tropical temperatures brought fans of both kinds out in force at this year’s record-breaking Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2024 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, which ran from Thursday 18 July to Sunday 21 July. On Friday morning and early afternoon, savvy publishers were handing... The post Harrogate 2024 Report: Crime fiction is HOT this summer first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from... The post Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Yes, every week On the Radar brings you a cabaret of… death. Rarely does a mystery not involve murder and it comes in many forms, in many places. Our first book this week is all about entertainment – 1930s style – as the illusionist Joseph... The post On the Radar: A cabaret of death first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

James Delargy’s incendiary new crime thriller Into the Flames follows his two previous novels set in rural southeastern Australia. Inspiration for his latest may have been the terrifying 2019-20 bushfire season in New South Wales, and reminiscent of wildfires in Western Canada and the United... The post Into the Flames by James Delargy first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more

Let’s me begin by introducing the band. Jessie Sheen is 31, on guitar and lead vocals. Her elder sister, Brea, is 34 and plays drums. Completing the power trio is Florence ‘Flo’ Bella, also 31, bass and backing vocals. Across the USA, in countless bars... The post The Bang-Bang Sisters by Rio Youers first appeared on Crime Fiction Lover ..read more