Crime Fiction Lover

Yes, it’s true. Every book in this week’s roundup features a criminal masterminds of one kind or another, and in three of them we’re talking about proper anti-hero types. We’ve got the latest from Gary Phillips, Saima Mir, Paul D Brazill, Maryann Webb, Douglas Jackson…

This new crime novel by Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, native Kennedy Weible is one of those books that makes me wish I took notes. Dirty Myrtle just has much going on! So many characters! It might have been easier to keep them straight if I…

Alicia Moore is a deputy sheriff in a small, socially conservative, deeply religious town in rural Kentucky. She’s married to Bill and has a son, Bart, in the seventh grade. She’s also the daughter of a well-respected former sheriff of the town. In short, she’s…

If you’re a devotee of noir fiction, you’ll definitely find it in Gregory W Beaubien’s new crime thriller, The Devil is Waiting. Set in Chicago mainly in the 1970s and 1990s, his story eventually tracks five generations of men in one family who, in their…

Policing is an incredibly difficult job and, often, the drama and trauma we read about in the pages of crime novels are a reflection of real life. Crime author James Ellson’s career is a case in point. Today he writes crime novels full of action…

Last week, HarperCollins unveiled the cover to The Most Dangerous Games – a novel written collaboratively by the YouTuber MrBeast and the crime thriller author James Patterson. Given that the natural ecosystem of one of the co-authors is YouTube, we decided to make a video…