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  • June 2026 is the UK’s National Crime Reading month
  • Sleight of Crime
  • Carmela Dutra on Why Public Crime Scenes Work So Well in Mysteries

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crimefictionlover.com /1 month ago

June 2026 is the UK’s National Crime Reading month

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-...

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thebigthrill.org /1 month ago

Sleight of Crime

What Magicians Taught Me About Murder

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Carmela Dutra on Why Public Crime Scenes Work So Well in Mysteries

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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churchtimes.co.uk /1 month ago

Analysis: Why is ‘cosy crime’ so popular?

“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...

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crimefictionlover.com /2 weeks ago

On the Radar: Criminal masterminds

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...

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thenational.scot /1 month ago

Scottish crime thriller will rope audiences into its twisted world

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...

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filmthreat.com /3 weeks ago

A Crime Story

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.

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killzoneblog.com /1 month ago

The Crime Fiction Evolution

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...

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crimereads.com /1 week ago

Crime and the City: Bari, Italy

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...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

How ‘At Close Range’ Set the Tone for Rural Crime Storytelling

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...

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crimespreemag.com /1 month ago

FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: Crime Scenes by Joseph S. Walker

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...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

Some of the Best New True Crime Books

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.

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killzoneblog.com /1 month ago

Digital Detectives: The Role of Cyber Forensics in Modern Crime Stories

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:...

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crimefictionlover.com /6 days ago

On the Radar: Summer holiday crime fiction

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...

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crimefictionlover.com /2 weeks ago

Crime Scenes by Joseph S Walker

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...

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crimefictionlover.com /2 weeks ago

Collateral Death by J Kushley

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...

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ekathimerini.com /1 month ago

Methodical work against crime

Crime is constantly “modernizing” and evolving. It is organized and operates in ways that exceed the state’s adaptation speed. 

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Crime and the City: Cologne, Germany

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...

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crimereads.com /4 weeks ago

Guru-dunit: 5 Mysteries That Skewer the Worlds of Wellness and Self-Help

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...

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reviewjournal.com /2 weeks ago

Retired Metro fingerprint expert pens true crime book

Steven Scarborough spent nearly 30 years working as a fingerprint examiner and crime scene investigator for the Metropolitan Police Department.

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crimereads.com /2 days ago

Jo Piazza on Writing Convincing Art Heists and Museum Mysteries

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...

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crimereads.com /1 week ago

Laugh-out-loud Lethal: 6 Comedic Crime Novels and Thrillers

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...

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crimereads.com /1 month ago

Crime and the City: Cleveland, Ohio

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....

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manchestereveningnews.co.uk /4 weeks ago

'Mind blowing' Harlan Coben true crime series is now streaming on ITV

The author is exploring real life crimes rather than creating fictional ones in the project

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