This week's new crime books including Lee and Andrew Child, Louise Penny, Karen Millie-James, Paul Burke, Vince Thompson and ...

Judging by the amount of submissions we receive for news and reviews, crime fiction is doing very well indeed. They say people are reading less… well they’re not reading less crime fiction, ...

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

Quant is back! It’s been nearly 15 years since Russell Quant, the private detective created by Canadian author Anthony Bidulka last appeared on the page. That was in Dos Equis, which had an Oceans 11 ...

It’s fascinating how some novels come into being. The Whitby Protocol by Bernadette Bernson is a case in point. Writing crime fiction in English for the first time, the German author arrived in Whitby ...

Ian Fleming famously created James Bond in 1953 with Casino Royale, and the modern super spy appeared in 14 books before the author’s death in 1964. In the 60-plus years since there have been numerous ...

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 ...

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.

Kurt Wallander, a detective in the small Swedish coastal town of Ystad, is a fiercely dedicated cop with a knack for reading crime scenes. His peculiar urkraft consists of making unconscious ...

Today we’re joined by Craig Sisterson, author of Southern Cross Crime, a new guidebook to Australian and New Zealand crime writing. Craig has previously pointed us towards some terrific Kiwi ...

The trouble with loving Scandinavian crime fiction is that often the books in any particular series will suffer from TOOO syndrome – translated out of order. When we originally wrote this post what ...