Crime Fiction Lover

Having previously written historical mysteries set in 1920s Calcutta, Abir Mukherjee changed track in 2024 and came up with Hunted – a thriller set in the United States with an explosive, toxic politics-infused plot line. He slam dunked it, winning Thriller of the Year at the…

Canadian author Louise Penny (left) is at the top of the tree when it comes to crime fiction. Her novels featuring Quebec police detective Armand Gamache always rate highly when we review them and we can’t wait for the next… Mellissa Fung is an award-winning…

Growler. Grosvenor. Tourtière. However you frame it, the pork pie has become a symbol of classic British cuisine. That’s why retired Detective Superintendent Albert Smith chooses Melton Mowbray – Rural Capital of Food and Town of Pies – as the first stop on his culinary…

Yesterday on X we brought you the exclusive cover reveal of Quant, the ninth novel in Canadian crime author Anthony Bidulka’s detective series and the first in nearly 15 years. Russell Quant is a lot of things. He doesn’t drink wine, he swills it. He…

Across the new crime novels we write about this week you’ll visit some pretty remote places – forgotten mining towns, backwoods places and the fringes of cities where tourists never venture. In one set-up, the people fear going venture outside. Even in their international political…

In 2024, Stag put Dane Bahr firmly on the radar of crime fiction lovers – a retro serial killer thriller that mixed violence and dread with a poignant relationship between the two older protagonists assigned to investigate the murders. It was Bahr’s second novel and…