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Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo (1902-1981) is a wonderfully strange blend of Golden Age puzzle mystery, Gothic melodrama and distinctly Japanese atmosphere. Originally published as Woman Walking at Night in Japan, in 1948, it’s another perplexing case for…

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In 2023, Everybody Knows plunged us head first in to Jordan Harper’s Los Angeles – a neon nightmare of fame, scandal, drugs and depravity, where the rich do as they please and its left for the little people to clean up their mess. It’s a…

If you’ve not come across the Robbie Munroe legal thrillers, now may be the time as these successful ebooks are being published in print by Vinci Books. They’ve proven hugely popular on Amazon and from 18 June 2026 will be appearing in good bookshops in…

There’s something delightfully audacious about the premise of A Deadly Episode. The latest instalment in Anthony Horowitz’s long-running Hawthorne series begins with a murder that appears, at first glance anyway, to be deeply personal: private detective Daniel Hawthorne is stabbed to death. Except he isn’t….

Set against the volatile backdrop of Rome, Toni Viola’s Make Thick My Blood blends procedural investigation, political intrigue and personal reckoning into a thriller that is as interested in the moral pressures placed on its characters as it is in solving a crime. As a…