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It’s a debut that was making waves before it was published – The Art of Death even made CFL’s list of books to look out for in 2021. But does David Fennell’s novel bring anything new to the serial killer party? It certainly arrives with all guns blazing, with an opening few chapters that fair

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Translated by Miranda France — Investigative journalist Veronica Rosenthal in on holiday in Tucuman when she meets the foreign girls of the title, Frida and Petra. A chance encounter in a bar leads to Veronica inviting the backpackers to stay with in her holiday villa. Frida is Norwegian, Petra is Spanish, and they are in

When I was growing up, I was the only kid in my class who knew what Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, was. In fact, when the holiday came around during my fifth-grade year, my teacher asked me to teach the class about Chinese New Year traditions! I told them all about

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Slough House is Mick Herron’s seventh novel about his team of unloved, incompetent though often marvellously effective MI6 spies. Like all series of this vintage, the characters tend to come and go so a good way to start this review is the same way Herron does and begin with an update on who is currently

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For the past few years, it seems as though Scandinavian crime shows have been losing their way a little bit. Few have managed to excite fans in the same way that Wallander, The Killing and The Bridge did when they first appeared. In 2021, that’s changing. Subtitled versions of programmes like The Investigation and Man

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On 24 March 1976, three generals overthrew the government of Argentina and began ruling the country as a military dictatorship, waging the Dirty War against their political opponents. Thousands disappeared – trade unionists, university students, members of left-wing political parties – and were tortured and killed by right-wing death squads. It was a tumultuous period

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The butler did it. Or in this case, the chauffeur. Well, at least that’s who the Ghana police pin it on when renowned fashion designer, Lady Araba, is found bludgeoned to death in her luxury villa in a gated estate in Trasacco Valley – the Beverly Hills of Accra. Don’t be fooled by the cosy-sounding

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One thing we’ve noticed over the past nine years since we started Crime Fiction Lover is that publishing schedules vary quite a bit. Some weeks, the big publishing companies go head to head with their leading writers – a battle royale of bloodletting, so to speak. Other weeks are a lot more eclectic, bringing you

It’s been a long time reaching this point but it is finally happening. The Barack Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park, Chicago, will start pre-construction work in April 2021.  Chicago’s South Side has been waiting in eager anticipation for this amazing centre. The Center is more like a campus. This includes a Chicago Public Library

Translated by Rachel Ward — German crime fiction is a hit with our readers at the moment. We know this because thousands of readers have been checking in over the last month to read about the television series The Nordic Murders, plus our feature on some of the best German crime authors. Among them is

This post was originally published in our mystery/thriller newsletter, Unusual Suspects. Sign up for it here to get mystery news, reviews, deals, and more! Hi mystery fans! I have three could-not-be-more-different-from-each-other great reads for you this week: an awesome, super reluctant spy thriller; Friday Night Lights but with murder and horror; a smart cat-and-mouse serial killer novel.

After Deutschland 83 and Deutschland 86, we’ll go behind the Berlin Wall one last time as the third and final season – you guessed it, Deutschland 89 – arrives on More4 and the Channel 4 video-on-demand service Walter Presents. The show will air weekly in the UK starting at 9pm on Friday 26 February, with

One of the most common requests I get for literary goods posts is rounding up some fun bookish gifts for kids. We’ve got babies covered well and we have teens and adults covered. But somehow, kids seem to be overlooked, despite some of them being the biggest (little) bookworms you can image. So now it’s

Eloísa Díaz’s riveting new political thriller, Repentance, takes place during two tumultuous periods in Argentina’s history. The present-day of the story is December 2001, when riots in Buenos Aires and elsewhere will lead to the resignation of the country’s president. These disturbances were the culmination of popular anger over the country’s sharp economic decline, brought

With the overwhelming success of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Bridgerton, and the lukewarm success of many other Netflix titles, it holds true that fake dating plots will continue to dominate the romcom space. Luckily for movie and television developers, there are a ton of amazing fake dating romance novels to draw

Over the past few years, Carol Wyer has made quite a name for herself as an author of crime fiction series. First came DI Robyn Carter, followed by DI Natalie Ward. Now let’s welcome a third member to the group, DI Kate Young. As An Eye for an Eye opens, Young is on extended leave

Wind-swept, snow-covered landscapes. Cozy, decorative cottages where a mysterious being lives. Animals that toe the line between realistic and magical. Inspiring origin tales that go back generations. Stories that take place along the northernmost edges of the Earth are often described as “polar,” meaning they’re primarily set in frozen landscapes with an atmosphere of constant

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This week our books news column brings you five new crime novels, with murder after murder stacking up for our protagonists to solve, usually while evading death themselves. Our lead is The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths, who is hugely popular in the UK. We’ve got fascinating new Argentinian and Russian crime fiction, plus a

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