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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...
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...
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...
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...
Why? Because art is expensive. Think about it, paintings and sculptures are unique objects made by one artist over a lifetime, limited in supply, ergo valuable. Example: Leonardo d...
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...
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...
If you’re looking for a crime novel on the darker side of the spectrum, translated from Japanese, here are four criminally good reads.
The Nordic nation has almost no homicides, yet crime fiction is its favorite literary genre. That means writers face a challenge: making murder feel believable.
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...
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.
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...
A few years ago, sharing the stage at a book festival with another crime writer, there was a question from the audience about what kind of research we did. My fellow author talked...
Arthur Conan Doyle and Stephen King wrote both novels and short stories, Zora Neale Hurston as well, as did John Steinbeck. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is a classic, but so is hi...
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...
I don’t know about you, but I read to escape. To leave the mundane world behind. To dive into a setting completely different from my own. And to me, few things are more escapist th...
Ask me my spirit of choice and it’ll be gin every time. Whisky? Not my tipple mate. But crime fiction has a way of altering perceptions and weakening prejudices – and William McInt...
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...
In a brief comment in 1946, “Decline of the English Murder,” George Orwell, with a dose of his satirical genius, laments the “Americanization” of crime in his country, comparing a...
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...
Christmas and crime go together like port and stilton. Turkey and stuffing. Sprouts and a cracked window. Indeed, snowbound country houses, mysterious deaths beneath the mistletoe...
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...
The writer has been on a 30-year murder spree—imaginative and imaginary, but oh so successful. Better get up to speed with his work now, because it’s all going Hollywood soon.
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