Crime Fiction Lover
Five of the best: crime and mystery game apps
Reading crime books is what we’re passionate about here at Crime Fiction Lover. But if, like us, you enjoy your crime on an iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet, or even on a Kindle Fire, you may well be tempted to use your device to play some crime-related games as well. There are so many[...]
Caffeine Nights iPad app
If you’re a crime fiction lover with an iPad or an iPad Mini, a new app has been released just for you by independent publisher Caffeine Nights. With the motto ‘Fiction aimed at the heart and the head’ the publisher’s app offers readers two chapters from a selection of 18 books it has published. Authors[...]
JukePop: serial crime on the comeback?
Charles Dickens and other Victorian authors were quite used to the idea of serialising their books. In fact, it’s said they’d be waiting on the pier in New York for new chapters by Dickens to arrive from London on a monthly basis and most of his novels were published in 20 separate chapters sold for[...]
Google launches its UK bookstore with 3 million titles
Google Books has launched in the UK making it possible for readers to browse 3 million titles on their phones or tablets from Google’s vast digital repository. You can also search Google ebookstore from your web browser on a PC or Mac. Promising everything from bestsellers to rare out of print editions, it makes two[...]
Crime fiction on Android tablets
For those technophobes out there, Android tablets are nothing like Aspirin and don’t really involve robots either. Android’s the mobile operating system that many cell phones use these days, and just like Apple’s iOS has transferred from the iPhone to the iPad, many tablet computers employ Android. Fans of crime fiction will be interested because[...]
New Amazon Kindle Tablet
Technology websites this week have been heralding news on the forthcoming Kindle Tablet from Amazon, rumoured to be released in November. The reports hint at a totally new device, to be sold alongside Amazon’s existing Kindle e-reader, but with the added functionality of a tablet including other apps and web use. Writing on TechCrunch, tech[...]
Kindle Cloud Reader – upon closer inspection
As we reported during the week, Amazon has released a new app called the Kindle Cloud Reader, which works across a range of devices. It brings you Kindle on the iPad, or an Android tablet. It works on Macs and PCs with Chrome or Safari web browsers. And it works on iPhones and Android smartphones.[...]
Kindle Cloud Reader – buy once, read everywhere
Amazon has announced an exciting new development for eRreader fans with the introduction of its Kindle Cloud Reader. The new technology enables eReader lovers to access their entire library from any device, anywhere in the world, with no new downloads or installations needed. Kindle Cloud Reader syncs with your existing Kindle library and bookmarks, and[...]
In the footsteps of Wallander App
Ever fancied following in the footsteps of Sweden’s finest detective, Kurt Wallander? Well now you can, thanks to a new iPhone and Andriod app from the detective’s creator Henning Mankell. The free app called, rather literally, In The Steps of Kurt Wallander, shows you the sights of the detective’s hometown, Ystad, including his favourite café[...]
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