Crime Fiction Lover

Our new books column this week sees the return of a favourite as Steve Cavanagh releases his ninth Eddie Flynn thriller. Plus, we bring you five authors who are new to the site and the chance for you to discover something different. They include Morgan…

Translated by Quentin Bates — When the Reykjavik police decide to move in on an organised crime gang, all available officers are sequestered to take part in the raid. All except two, that is. Not Rado. He’s in a tricky position. His background is Serbian,…

Michael Connelly’s streaming universe – already home to Bosch, Bosch: Legacy and The Lincoln Lawyer – has expanded further with the arrival of Ballard on Amazon Prime. We first met LAPD detective Renee Ballard on screen in the final episode of Bosch: Legacy season three,…

We crime fiction lovers do enjoy a good book festival – but for all the cloak and dagger and fake crime scene tape that abound there, I don’t imagine that many of us have actually discovered an honest-to-goodness murder victim at one. That dubious pleasure…

It’s high summer, the tide is high and someone could become its victim… Today we bring you six brand new crime novels to check out by authors including Stella Blómkvist, Jim Eldridge, AJ Wilton, Jessa Maxwell, Ben Lloyd and Mary Anna Evans. From Iceland to…

Patterson, New Jersey, is the setting for this debut police procedural by Melanie Anagnos, a native of the town. It’s a bittersweet love letter to her native city, the former mill town that is one of the largest in the dense cluster of New York…