CrimeFictionLover

27/12/2025

🎅SATURDAY DRAW: Hope you're having a great holiday season. Wouldn't this book make it even better? Today we're giving away one of the best crime books of 2025 - Clown Town by Mick Herron, latest in the Slough House / Slow Horses series.🎄

Find out just how good it is here: https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/10/clown-town-by-mick-herron/

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Sometimes Facebook is still beset by scammers. If someone comments on your post saying you've won - they might even have our logo and name - and asks you to visit another website to enter your details, do not do this and report to FB. Also, we do get fake accounts playing lonely sole and trying to befriend female readers. Again, don't fall for it.😡

Worldwide draw closes 8am Sunday morning UK time. Winner will be notified by our editor via Messenger. Like/Share to enter.

Good luck!

25/12/2025

🖤♥️🖤Crime Fiction Lover: Top five books of 2025
It's my turn to talk about my favourite crime novels of the year...

My colleagues will tell you that 2025 was a great year for the genre, and you can trust them on that. However, for me it wasn’t a great year for reading, partly due to illness. But I did discover some very fine crime novels that are worth talking about and I’m looking forward to 2026. 5 – Brok...

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to all crime fiction lovers! 🖤🎅🖤

20/12/2025

🎄SATURDAY DRAW: Today we have a real cracker for you... The Christmas Cracker Killer by Alexandra Benedict.🎅

This is one of the fine seasonal mysteries featured in our 12 crimes of Christmas 2025 feature - find out more here: https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/the-12-crimes-of-christmas-2025/

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!

⚠️READ THIS IMPORTANT INFO ON ENTERING:⚠️
Sometimes Facebook is still beset by scammers. If someone comments on your post saying you've won - they might even have our logo and name - and asks you to visit another website to enter your details, do not do this and report to FB. Also, we do get fake accounts playing lonely sole and trying to befriend female readers. Again, don't fall for it.😡

Worldwide draw closes 8am Sunday morning UK time. Winner will be notified by our editor via Messenger. Like/Share to enter.

Good luck! 🍀

19/12/2025

👀Our On the Radar new books column is live! 📢

There's a return to Snowdonia with Simon McCleave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 plus new crime fiction from Cathy Ace, Alex Ahndoril, SJ Rozan and Amy Meyerson

https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/on-the-radar-a-return-to-snowdonia/

18/12/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Today our contributor top fives continue with Vicki Weisfeld. Our US correspondent brings you her five favourite crime and mystery reads of the year:
https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/vicki-weisfeld-top-five-books-of-2025/

Some great picks for Santa here...

Our US correspondent Vicki Weisfeld brings you her top five crime and mystery novels of 2025, including espionage, thrillers and procedural investigations.

18/12/2025

We need some new Nordic noir, right? Well, The Writing in the Water by John Ajvide Lindqvist riffs on Stieg Larsson quite heavily, but not in a bad way. That's the conclusion of our reviewer Sonja van der Westhuizen.
https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/the-writing-in-the-water-by-john-ajvide-lindqvist/

17/12/2025

🖤♥️🖤Our expert crime fiction reviewer Paul Burke is a man of mystery - such that there was no way I could guess what would be on his top five books list this year.

Each one a glorious surprise. Find out more here:

It’s always a pleasure too look back on the year and think about the reads that left a lasting impressions. I have five very different books here but they do share two things: great characters and engrossing storytelling. In 2025, Vera took a final bow leaving a vacancy for a North-Eastern TV dete...

17/12/2025

🎂Apologies for not being totally on the ball here on our FB page, but....

HAPPY 250th BIRTHDAY to JANE AUSTEN! 🎂

Belatedly, because 16 December marks the anniversary of her birth.

One of England's greatest novelists, she has influenced writers across genres including crime fiction since the early 19th century. And following on from that, our writer Erin Britton has brought together a basket full of mysteries inspired by the great Jane. Enjoy!

https://crimefictionlover.com/2025/12/mischief-and-misdemeanour-crime-fiction-for-jane-austens-250th-birthday/

15/12/2025

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DeathBecomesHer AKA reviews A. LOT. OF. BOOKS. for us so you can trust her top five crime novels of 2025 with more certainty than the force of gravity. Check it out here:

Our long-serving contributor Sandra Mangan is here with her five favourite crime novels of 2025. Some great tips for your own mystery book pile!

14/12/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ More top mysteries!
Our contributor Erin Britton is here with her top five books of 2025.

Our cosy crime fiction and Golden Age mystery expert Erin Britton brings you her five favourite crime novels of 2025

14/12/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Looking for gift ideas for the crime fiction lovers you know (or for yourself)? Check out our reviewer Sonja van der Westhuizen's top five books of 2025 here:

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Here in the Southern Hemisphere, the shops are teeming with Christmas decorations, Father Christmas impersonators sweating in their suits, and Boney M blaring through the speakers, while most of the South African population heads off to the beach in 35-degree hea...