
New Icelandic Crime Fiction by Female Authors
Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Satu Rämö and Lilja Sigurdardottir are all writing gripping thriller series set in Iceland. They are published by three different publishers, and as it happens, all three have...
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Satu Rämö and Lilja Sigurdardottir are all writing gripping thriller series set in Iceland. They are published by three different publishers, and as it happens, all three have...
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction is usually defined by the interwar period, with most books written in the 1920s and 1930s. The formation of The Detection Club falls into this era,...
Yesterday, William Shaw gave a brilliant talk about crime fiction and his latest book The Red Shore in the Dawlish Library to a full house
UPDATE 27 September 2025 Shipping to the US is now available again, for books ordered from Gumshoe Books. We regret that we had to increase the cost to pay for...
Books with logical puzzles of many kinds are getting more and more popular, and naturally, many of them have a murder mystery theme! If you like that sort of thing,...
The austere Australian landscape is a perfect backdrop for dramatic crime fiction stories: the remoteness of the settlements; small communities that may harbour deep secrets; the classic frontier spirit of...
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