The Crime Fiction Lover news column with books by Jess Mey, Kevin G Chapman, Raúl Quintana Selleras, Mark Grenside, ...

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 ...

Apparently the Canadian crime fiction author Linwood Barclay has been given the enviable nickname of ‘Twisty Thriller’, which is well earned. (I wonder if that’s his porn star name, too?!?!?) Before I ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sometimes, when one creative door is jammed shut, another one opens just down the hall. That’s what it was like for the Las Vegas-based actor Eduardo Robinson. When the actors’ strike hit Hollywood in ...

There is something distinctly unsettling about the idea of being trapped in your own house. It should be the place where you can retreat from the outside world, shut the door and feel safe. But what ...

For some reason, here at Crime Fiction Lover we’ve developed a special affinity for Canadian crime fiction, and so over the years we’ve got to know quite a few authors from all across Canada. Earlier ...

We’ve just posted a new video on our YouTube channel Video Evidence, which we’re super proud of. In it, you can watch five indie crime authors from different places reading from their latest novels.

Celia Fremlin’s Uncle Paul is an engrossing, slow-burning psychological thriller that skilfully blends suspense, family dynamics and the infuriating complexities of human relationships. Originally ...