Reviews

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction (Rough Guide Reference) by Barry Forshaw, Rough Guides, Ian Rankin

cleng's review

3.0

Good suggestions for future reading!

canadianbookworm's review

3.0

This small book is a guide for readers of crime fiction, giving historic origins, early examples of different types, and summaries of modern examples. I found it interesting in that it gave examples of titles, rather than authors, recognizing that authors may write more than one type of crime fiction. I got a full-page of books I want to read from it, and saw many I've already enjoyed. Of course, it is not all-inclusive and there were some favourites that I would have liked to see here that were missed, but it will definitely give most readers a place to start, or new authors to consider.