Crime Fiction

A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season

Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy

A sinister start to the spring

There is better crime fiction being written

This selection of new fiction is marked by both novelty and tradition

Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series

From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not

Professor Jeremy Black rounds up the best autumnal reads that are successful in grounding a sense of place