Crime Fiction Lover

Espionage fans know we are in a golden era of spy novels, films and television shows right now, but it’s a genre that has never really gone out of fashion. Spies on Screen is my new book coming out on 20 October 2026 and it…

Set in near future Washington, DC, Miles Joyner’s new technothriller, Shifta, seems almost too plausible, despite its futuristic touches. This is his second book about the Bazaarverse, a site on the Dark Web that functions as an assassination market. Because I hadn’t read the first…

The new psychological thriller Faculty of Liars by RL Heber takes a close-in view of the world of a small, but prestigious New England university from the point of view of its new president’s wife. From the outset, you know she’s fallen prey to the…

It was back in March of 2013 that I read and reviewed The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood here on Crime Fiction Lover. It was that author’s debut and proved to be one of those books that never really leaves you. So a little bell…

Ian Rankin. John Rebus. Edinburgh. They are as synonymous in my mind as haggis, neeps and tatties. However, I must tear these connections from my synapses because authors should never be held to one detective, one city and one set of expectations from readers. (And,…

In his novel The Killer is Dying back in 2011, James Sallis considered how a life of crime comes to an end, among other things. Essentially, it looked at a hitman who was not just losing his touch, but slowly losing his battle with a…