Crime Fiction Lover

The premise of Robert B McCaw’s new Washington, DC-based political thriller, Traitors, is that a group of five Russian sleeper agents has, over time, worked its way up into the highest reaches of the US government. The new head of the Department of Justice’s National…

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — In two months’ time, an asteroid named Telo is due to hit Fukuoka, Japan, with a kinetic energy equivalent to 45 billion megatons of TNT. “It’s the end of the world as we know it,”‘ as Michael Stipe once sang….

Dark academia is more than just a subgenre. To some it’s a subculture, playing on the idea that hidden away in the shadows of an ancient university lies the potential for both romance and murder. Crime author RL Heber’s upcoming novel Faculty of Liars pulls…

Shrink Solves Murder, the crime fiction debut from psychotherapist and bestselling writer Philippa Perry, recognises the appeal of placing intelligence, observation and human understanding at the centre of a good mystery rather than procedural mechanics or increasingly elaborate acts of violence. The novel introduces Patricia…

The Angel of Death is Trevor Wood’s third book in his engrossing DCI Jack Parker series. It is a character-driven police procedural. Jack was diagnosed with early onset dementia in The Silent Killer. Unpleasant memories of how Alzheimers impacted his father led Jack to isolate…

We’ve been at it with the old camcorder again… or the 2026 equivalent, which is a camera about the size of a mouse. But it’s produced yet another big video, which we’ve posted on our YouTube channel. Quite a simple one, this time – a…