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  • 7 Crime Novels That Feature Outsiders Who Challenge the Status Quo
  • Fall from Grace by Leye Adenle
  • Crime and the City: Liverpool

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

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...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

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...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

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...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

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...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

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...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

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.

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thebigthrill.org /3 weeks ago

Killer Twist

When a celebrity author is murdered at a crime writing festival, a Scandi-noir writer and an English 'crime-ance' novelist plot to catch the killer of a man they both love to hate.

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mysteryfile.com /1 week ago

My Top 10 PI Novels, by Tony Baer.

My Top 10 PI Novels, by Tony Baer.              — One per author; private = no police detectives: The Maltese Falcon Long Goodbye Galton Case 8th Circle (Ellin) No Good from a Corp...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

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...

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buzzmag.co.uk /1 month ago

HAZELL WARD exhumes the Lord Lucan mystery for her debut crime novel

Ultimately, The Game Is Murder is a murder mystery that is just as interested in dissecting the genre as it is in the mystery itself. The post HAZELL WARD exhumes the Lord Lucan my...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

Lie To Me by DS Butler

Every once in a while, it’s good to read outside of your comfort zone. Personally speaking, I have always been most interested in reading towards the more hard-boiled end of the cr...

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crimespreemag.com /21 hours ago

Behind the Book: Why Corporate Crime?

I sold real estate in early 1990s.  That probably doesn’t sound like the opening of a crime novel, but it’s the truth — and it’s where Alexandra Sinclair was born. When you work in...

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independent.ie /1 month ago

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

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crimefictionlover.com /4 days ago

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...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

6 Classic and Contemporary Mysteries Set at Oxford University

Classic mysteries are popular for their predictable structure shepherded to a tidy conclusion by a sympathetic detective, and I am particularly fond of those set inside academia. T...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

Seeing Red by Damien Boyd

Going back to Poe’s C Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, procedural mysteries have an illustrious history in crime fiction. Damien Boyd’s new Seeing Red fits that pop...

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crimefictionlover.com /3 weeks ago

On the Radar: Have you ever solved a murder?

We’ll get things going this week with a little bit of amateur sleuth fun – it’s Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder. To be fair, neither have I, although I did figure out whi...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Carrie Talick on Mashing Up Genres and Injecting Comedy into Murder Mysteries

Just when you thought thrillers and mysteries were the only place to find a body, along comes a small army of writers who love a good romance and a lot of laughter with their untim...

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bookriot.com /4 days ago

Peter James Recommends His Favorite Crime Novels

Peter James, the bestselling author of the Roy Grace series, recommends three of his favorite crime novels

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crimefictionlover.com /2 weeks ago

Our top 10 crime reads for Halloween 2026

Halloween and crime fiction are a devilishly good pairing. When the nights draw in, the leaves start to fall and the shadows seem just a little longer than usual, there’s something...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

The Most Powerful Question in Any Mystery

Mysteries and thrillers pose a familiar set of questions: What happened? Who did it? Who was the victim? Can the criminal be stopped? What will happen next? These questions are ind...

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brittlepaper.com /1 month ago

“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...

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

The Honourable Member for Murder by David Weir

Politics and murder. Both involve secrets, competing agendas, carefully managed public appearances and, occasionally, people prepared to do almost anything to get what they want. I...

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thebigthrill.org /4 weeks ago

Cold Case: Then is Now

Delivering justice is a worthy goal for any fictional sleuth. But is it enough?

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