Crime Fiction Lover

We’re back with more new crime novel releases including two books set in Scotland and one in Iceland, which makes me think that perhaps Tartan noir and Scandinavian crime fiction are back on the up – particularly with The Dark looking so good on ITV…

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we tend to keep to our lane – albeit that lane has multiple offshoots and dastardly detours. But sometimes it is good to change the record and listen to a different tune. In my case, a guilty pleasure is reading…

Back in 2023, we discovered Claire – the very unusual serial killer with a dark sense of humour at the heart of You’d Look Better as a Ghost, by Joanna Wallace. The book received a five-star review here on the site, and it won Debut…

Back in 2019, Scottish author GR Halliday entered the world of crime fiction with his debut novel, From the Shadows. Now, it’s 2026, a lucky seven years later, and copies are flying off the shelves. ITV has turned that first DI Monica Kennedy novel into…

Here’s a book for people looking for a new take on the political thriller, beyond the familiar tropes of corrupt officials, property developers, police coverups and soulless oligarchs. Nathaniel Rich’s new heist thriller Cloudthief points its literary finger directly at the massive data centres working…

There’s no shortage of great detective stories set in Edinburgh, of course, spearheaded by Ian Rankin’s Rebus series. Since 2012, James Oswald has steadily added to this roster with his DI Tony McLean series and The Violent Hour, the 15th to feature McLean, has arrived….