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“People are people anywhere they are” Leye Adenle on Writing Crime Thrillers That Feel Nigerian 

Plot twists, high stakes, suspicious deaths and the thrill of uncovering a crime are what readers come to crime thrillers for. But when we think about the genre, America and Britai...

Crime and the City: Nairobi

Nearly five million people live in what was a city of the British East Africa Protectorate before Kenyan independence. Nowadays the city is emerging as the technology and AI hub of...

Outsiders in the Bush: Garry Disher on Australian Outback Noir

There have always been Australian crime novels set in remote areas, but a distinctive cluster of them has appeared in recent years, prompting reviewers to use the phrase, “outback...

Fall from Grace by Leye Adenle

Crime is a broad genre and at Crime Fiction Lover we are on top of all the trends. Cosy mysteries and high concept thrillers are both really big with readers at the moment, but the...

The Case of the Missing Whodunit | Temitope Usman | Essay

  There is an exquisite pleasure unique to Agatha Christie and which the African literary tradition has, largely, shied away from exploring. It is the pleasure of receiving all the...

Inside the Stacks: University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Spotlights New African Fiction

Walk into Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison this month, and you’ll run into a small, colorful surprise: a New Books Display Shelf stacked with some of the mos...

5 Weird and Wanton Crime Novels Set in Australia’s Suburbs

Australia has sold itself well to the world over the past fifty or so years. The pitch has been as consistent as it has been factual: sunlit white sand beaches as long as your bare...

10 African Books Your Book Club Might Be Sleeping On

Every book club knows the struggle of finding that next great read. You scroll through bestseller lists, revisit the books everyone has been talking about and somehow end up circli...

5 Novels That Explore and Expand the Possibilities of Women’s Crime Fiction

The day my editor asked me to write a Women’s Fiction series I immediately said, Yes! Followed by, what’s Women’s Fiction? Isn’t all fiction Women’s Fiction? I mean, I read everyth...

‘Crime pays’ as book clubs delve into age-appropriate dark side of life and capture new members

Crimeucopia Presents Canadian Chronicles

Canada is having a bit of a moment. The threat of annexation from the United States has awoken a sense of pride and respect for all that is Canadian made, including crime fiction....

Love Noir? Try Iyamisu and Dark Japanese Crime Novels

If you’re looking for a crime novel on the darker side of the spectrum, translated from Japanese, here are four criminally good reads.

Crime and the City: Liverpool

Frankly I’ve always been surprised that more crime fiction writers haven’t adopted Liverpool, or simply “the ‘pool’” for their location. It’s a city packed with character, a port t...

7 African Books Coming Your Way This October

We’re officially in the last quarter of the year, and hopefully, the reading is still going. Maybe you’re still making your way through the TBR list you made in January, or perhaps...

Life, Unscripted: Seven African Nonfiction Books Worth Reading

Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and unexpected possibilities. But fiction, even at its most im...

Series of femicides shocks South Africa, highlights crime levels

The discovery of the bodies of nine women near Johannesburg in the last two months has sent shock waves around South Africa and highlighted the scourge of femicide and high levels...

Three atmospheric indie crime novels from Canada

When it comes to indie mystery novels, Canada is a country we really admire here at Crime Fiction Lover. Canadians keep their unique voice in the genre alive through dozens of smal...

7 Crime Novels That Feature Outsiders Who Challenge the Status Quo

One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather...

Meet the author: Chris Dolley

There needs to be an award for best route to crime fiction fame. If there were, surely Chris Dolley would be the bookies’ favourite. Originally from Bournemouth, he now lives in Fr...

South Africa: Three Arrested Over Ekurhuleni Woman's Murder - South African News Briefs - September 21, 2026

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Scottish crime writers to share their Tartan Noir secrets

The course will feature authors including Christopher Brookmyre

Africa: Unusual Suspects - Elders in West Africa's Changing Drug Trade

[ISS] The apparent rise of trafficking by older adults could reflect a new criminal adaptation rather than individual criminality.

Cajetan Iheka’s Horizontal Comparison Takes On Comparative Literature’s “Africa Problem”

What happens when African and Caribbean literature is read alongside itself, rather than continually measured against Europe and the United States? That is the question at the hear...

On the Radar: Six new mysteries for you to solve

Welcome to Crime Fiction Lover’s weekly news roundup. In our latest edition, we’ve got a great mix of new crime novels for you to discover including books by the authors Adam Plant...