Written by Michael Hogan – If you love a comfortable murder-detection-solution book, then look away now. Oh, yes, there’s one other thing. Are you a devout Roman Catholic? Once again, you may wish to revisit something more warmly reassuring, like a Father Brown story, or one of the Cadfael books. Hogan has the Church of[...]
Written by Kenneth Cook – Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. But while it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake in Fight is as good as anything that’s come[...]
Classics in September — The Black Echo by Michael Connelly — Anyone over a certain age will know what I’m talking about. You’re listening to the radio when a song you’ve not heard for a while comes on. Soon you’re singing along – and you know all the words too. The kick comes at the[...]
Written by Rudy Yuly – In a luxurious house in the hills above Seattle, Assistant DA Silver, his wife and their six-year-old daughter Lucy are found brutally beaten to death. Detective George Louis and his partner Pinky Bjorgesen are assigned the case. Once the forensic team have done what they have to do, the house[...]
Crime Fiction Lover has teamed up with new Swedish publisher Stockholm Text to bring you a great money-saving offer. Purchase one of Stockholm Text’s brand new books – either in paperback or ebook format – and the publisher will give you a second one absolutely free. This is an exclusive offer and one we’re very[...]
Written by Paul Levine – The jury may still be out as to whether the ebook will save or kill off the publishing industry, but one thing is not in doubt. Ebooks have made it so much easier for readers to find books they missed out on the first time around. A case in point[...]
Written by Fay Sampson – Genealogy is something that has enjoyed booming popularity lately thanks to programmes like Who Do You Think You Are? and widespread access to websites full of the kind of records you need to trace your family tree. With skeletons being found in cupboards and family secrets coming to light, it[...]
Written by Steve Finbow – Sometimes love merges into obsession and sometimes reality seems a temporary condition. Nothing Matters explores just such times. X and Z, lovers for a time, are engaged in a chase. She is running from him, and toward something. He is running in search of her, but away from what he[...]
Written by PD James – Most famous for her Adam Dalgleish and Cordelia Gray mysteries, PD James has more than 20 works to her name in a career spanning almost 60 years. Last summer, it was revealed that her next novel would be a crime novel based on her favourite book, Pride and Prejudice. Since[...]
Today and tomorrow – that’s 22 and 23 February 2012 – you can download Linda Gruchy’s self-published crime novel Death in Spiggs Wood for free on Amazon. As the title suggest, Spiggs Wood in Essex is at the heart of the action. Kickboxing champion Meg Rusher has shot one man and wounded another, and while[...]
Just a quick update here to let you know about two free crime eBooks you can get your hands on, as well as a short story. First up, for the next few days, you can get both of Zach Fortier’s hardboiled crime books free from Amazon. Curb Chek was his first, and it was followed[...]
Yesterday we brought you our review of The Pineville Heist, an action-packed crime book for young adults about a teenage boy called Aaron Stevens who gets mixed up in a bank robbery. The author Lee Chambers has dropped us a line to let us know about a special give-away that Crime Fiction Lover readers can[...]