Your 10 favourite crime reads of the year, so far...
People who run websites love statistics. How many clicks did we get? Which story is the most popular? How many users exited the site after two seconds… We’ve got graphs and charts for all these things here at Crime Fiction Lover. Occasionally, they actually tell…
Shining Girls in View-Master vision
This week the CFL mailbag brought us a small white cardboard box from HarperCollins. Intriguing – firstly, because most parcels we get are book-shaped, and secondly because inside was one of those retro View-Master units – the kind that looks like futuristic binoculars, but really…
Swear Down
Written by Russ Litten — Swear Down is the difficult second novel for Hull-based author and scriptwriter Russ Litten. His first was Scream If You Want To Go Faster, which poignantly studied a series of different characters attending the last day of the Hull Fair, Europe’s…
Five of the best: Cosy mysteries from the USA
Alongside the darker world of police procedurals and thrillers, cosy novels are the palate cleansers of the crime fiction world. They usually have whimsical covers and most always have a happy ending, or at least a satisfactory resolution. Now, in the mystery genre – at…
Photographic evidence: Cold Killing
Regular readers of Crime Fiction Lover will know that we like it when book publishers go that extra mile – for instance with a really well-designed cover, or a nice slipcase for a neatly printed book. This week, their PR machines have been a little…
Desolation Row
Written by Kay Kendall — Kendall has a background in international corporate communications and Desolation Row is her debut historical mystery, inspired by her favourite suspense stories set during World Wars I and II. However this story takes place during 1968, with the Vietnam War…