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The Flatey Enigma
Written by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson – Fortunately for us, two of the 10 Icelandic books selected for English translation by the new AmazonCrossing publishing initiative happen to be crime novels. One of them, The Flatey Enigma by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson, was a welcome blip on the CFL radar. The year is 1960. Kjartan, a rather[...]
Fallen Angel
Written by Jonelle Patrick – In recent years, the seedier underbelly of Japanese nightlife and hostess clubs has been exposed by Mo Hayder in her novel Tokyo (aka The Devil of Nanking) and Susanna Quinn’s Glass Geishas. The popularity and also potential dangers of this system, particularly for foreign girls, were starkly highlighted following the gruesome[...]
Voodoo Eyes
Written by Nick Stone – PI Max Mingus has settled into his routine of investigating cheating spouses when what would usually be a fairly standard case turns decidedly not-so-standard. However, that case takes a swift back seat when Max gets a call from his old partner, Joe Linton, who’s at a murder scene of a[...]
The Weeping Girl
Written by Håkan Nesser – If you’re a lover of Scandinavian crime fiction, take warning. Most or the jacket quotes on the latest Håkan Nesser novel refer to the author’s Nordic Noir and Scandinavian crime fiction credentials. “Nesser is one of the best of the Nordic Noir writers…” says the Guardian. However, although the author[...]
LoiteringWithIntent: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction
In comparison to my fellow CFL contributors, I came to crime pretty late. No Famous Five, no Secret Seven. Although Roald Dahl covered some very dark territory – domestic violence, worldwide infanticide plots, elaborate tortures in a chocolate factory. So when I finally caught up, in my late teens, I gravitated to the big names,[...]
Eleven Days
Written by Stav Sherez – We first met Jack Carrigan and Geneva Miller last year, in Stav Sherez’s critically acclaimed and hugely successful A Dark Redemption. That book was set against a backdrop of Ugandan political unrest, while focusing on a grisly death on the mean streets of London – a heady mix which made[...]
Cold Killing
Written by Luke Delaney – Say hello to DI Sean Corrigan, latest recruit to the psychological police procedural fold – you’ll be hearing more from him in the future. Corrigan is the creation of debut author Luke Delaney, an ex-London Metropolitan Police detective who certainly has the inside track on how an investigation works. Not[...]
Chilled to the Bone
Written by Quentin Bates – It appears the weather is conspiring to keep us reading Nordic crime fiction – or at least crime fiction set in colder climates. Or is it just me who needs rain, snow and grey clouds to curl up with Scandinavian writers? Quentin Bates, however, is an English writer, albeit one with[...]
Mayhem
Written by Sarah Pinborough – As a setting Victorian London seems to be a mainstay in crime fiction. It will always of course be associated with that most famous of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, but there is also Sexton Blake, Dickens’ Bleak House, and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. More recently, a new generation of authors[...]
Complex 90
Written by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins – Titan Books and Mickey Spillane’s literary executor Max Allan Collins are back, and they’ve completed and released another unfinished Mike Hammer novel from the archives. We reviewed Lady, Go Die! last year, gave it four stars, and interviewed Collins about the process of completing Spillane’s novels.[...]
MarinaSofia: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction
Like all children growing up in an English-speaking environment, I had my share of Famous Five and Secret Seven as a child, but I think I realised even back then that the carefree lifestyle depicted would not suit my own urban existence. Growing up in big cities, I was always attracted to the endless possibilities[...]
Deadly Deceit
Written by Mari Hannah – It’s a strange law of nature in publishing, but the third novel is very often the breakout novel for a new crime fiction author. Deadly Deceit is no exception. Good though the previous two books in the Kate Daniels series were, Mari Hannah really hits her stride with this one. This[...]
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