Crime Fiction Lover

Oooo, we’re liking the pentagrammic symmetry of this week’s lead book. What do you think? Five on five, oh-five. And in five minutes one of five characters might be dead. But if we go one step further and say, “Six!” then you have the number…

The likes of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Denise Mina have become household names and figureheads for Scottish crime fiction. One of the latest to join this crew is Andrew Raymond, whose DCI John Lomond series, set in Glasgow, has built a dedicated readership, which…

If you’ve fallen for the gentle charm, dry wit and quietly subversive brilliance of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, you’ll know that crime fiction doesn’t always need gritty detectives or high-octane thrills to keep you turning the pages. Sometimes, the most satisfying mysteries are…

A tiny, continuously-shifting island off the coast of Cornwall has a huge part to play in Tim Weaver’s latest David Raker book, the 15th in the series to feature the former journalist turned seeker of the lost – published almost 16 years to the day…

Ed Lin’s The Dead Can’t Make a Living is the fifth book in his Taipei Night Market Series, serving up an interesting mix of cosy mystery, arm chair travel and social commentary along with a good measure of Taiwanese cuisine. This time around protagonist Jing-nan…

South African author André M Louw makes a notable entrance to the crime genre with a debut that balances fully fleshed-out characters with a breakneck pace. The story commences with the discovery of Mark Whitcombe, a prominent 67-year-old retired lawyer whose mutilated corpse is found…