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Rural noir – crime stories set in small American towns, nestled among cornfields and along winding riverbanks – has long been a hugely popular and influential subset of crime movie...
If I remember correctly, I first read a review of Norman Mailer’s Tough Guys Don’t Dance in the New York Times Sunday Book Review section when the novel was published in 1984. Inte...
There’s a very popular crime novelist's memoir, a sociologist’s look at the injustice system, and a dissection of an '80s subway shooting.
James Ellroy, the boss of concisely-written fast-on-the-draw prose, returns with another slice of relentlessly gripping Los Angeles-based noir. The post Nixon, Hugh Hefner and Bobb...
If you’re a devotee of noir fiction, you’ll definitely find it in Gregory W Beaubien’s new crime thriller, The Devil is Waiting. Set in Chicago mainly in the 1970s and 1990s, his s...
Crime fiction is a genre built on familiar tropes: the suspicious death, the damaged investigator, the institution that prefers easy answers over difficult truths. What makes a mys...
By PJ Parrish As many of you regulars know, I have retired from fulltime novel writing. Still keeping my toes in the short fiction waters but the demands of turning out a novel per...
Today we’re proud to unveil the cover image for Cop Out, a novel by Ellery Queen, which is returning to the shelves thanks to Hard Case Crime and Titan Books. Originally published...
Yes, it’s true. Every book in this week’s roundup features a criminal masterminds of one kind or another, and in three of them we’re talking about proper anti-hero types. We’ve got...
TO the uninitiated, “true crime fiction” might sound like a contradiction in terms. However, as Denise Mina’s acclaimed novel The Long Drop – now adapted for the Citizens Theatre s...
When I first heard Sting’s lyrics to “Every Breath You Take,” the song’s chilling, threatening tone made me genuinely uneasy. Was someone watching me? Should I be looking over my s...
Winston “Wince” Fisher Jr. is in a rut. After his daughter was born, Wince tried to leave his high-octane life of crime behind for a safe career in wealth management, but then his...
Is this the summer of the destination thriller? Maybe. Maybe not. Some of the spots you’ll visit literarily in this week’s new books report are a lot more desirable than others. Bl...
In 2023, Everybody Knows plunged us head first in to Jordan Harper’s Los Angeles – a neon nightmare of fame, scandal, drugs and depravity, where the rich do as they please and its...
“LIKE a hug in a book” was how the the Dublin writer Kitty Graham described it to The Irish Times. It is an odd way to describe a literary genre concerned with murder and the worst...
A cop’s wife is murdered—and the system investigates itself.
We don’t often review short story collections here at Crime Fiction Lover, but this collection of 20 by award-winning American story writer and president of the Short Mystery Ficti...
Nine murders. One seemingly impossible disappearance. Nineteen burglaries. An adrenalin-fuelled car chase and an impressively grand theft. Plenty of domestic drama. A taste of pie-...
The winners of the prestigious 2026 Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the...
Scottish authors have ploughed a rich crime fiction furrow over the years, with the likes of William McIlvanney, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Chris Brookmyre taking up the Tartan n...
“The mystery” seems to be irresistible to literary novelists – so many have written one or more and doubtless many others want to write them.
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Ian Dury’s debut single with The Blockheads quickly became an anthem after its release in 1977, and was taken up as a rallying cry by up and...
It’s a warm Saturday afternoon, and the festival is in full swing. String lights sway overhead in the summer breeze. Music drifts between booths selling kettle corn and cotton cand...
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