June 2026 is the UK’s National Crime Reading month
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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-...
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...
“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...
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...
In Brian A. Metcalf’s A Crime Story, one act of mercy during a botched hit sets off a chain of events that... The post A Crime Story first appeared on Film Threat.
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...
Bari doesn’t get as much publicity as it should. A port city on the Adriatic, and the capital of southern Italy’s Puglia region (aka Apulia). Its mazelike old town, Bari Vecchia, o...
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...
David Dean has called Joseph S. Walker "arguably the best short crime fiction writer on the scene today," and in Crime Scenes, the first collection of his stories, you'll find ampl...
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.
By Jennifer Graeser Dornbush When I was growing up, evidence meant fingerprints, fibers, and blood spatter. Today, we also find enormous amounts of evidence in our digital prints:...
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...
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...
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...
Crime is constantly “modernizing” and evolving. It is organized and operates in ways that exceed the state’s adaptation speed.
Cologne, or to the purists Köln, fourth biggest city in Germany, the largest in North Rhine-Westphalia, with just over a million inhabitants. Elements of Roman rule, then the combi...
If you’ve chosen to pursue a life of crime, that can come with certain complications. The constant pressure of planning high stakes missions and evading capture can take a toll on...
Steven Scarborough spent nearly 30 years working as a fingerprint examiner and crime scene investigator for the Metropolitan Police Department.
A heist is a very particular sort of crime with a very particular emotional hold over readers. Every time that I mention to someone that I’ve written a heist book, they tell me exa...
Recently, I told an acquaintance that I write comedic crime fiction. This new friend made a quizzical face. “Crime and comedy?” she said. “That’s a strange pairing.” But comedy and...
Cleveland, Ohio, the most populous city on Lake Erie and the second-most populous city in the state (after Columbus) with over two million residents in the Greater Cleveland area....
The author is exploring real life crimes rather than creating fictional ones in the project
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