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Rabbit Hole by Jon Richter

9 August, 2020

Elaine Napier is 40-ish and has lost her job as a journalist. Those investigative skills – what to do with them? Well, she has set up a true crime podcast that looks into cold cases. Her first investigation is into the disappearance of Katrin Gunnarsdottir,…

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On the Radar: Ice cold graves, red hot mysteries

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7 August, 2020

It’s the middle of summer and while it’s hard for many of us to have a holiday at the moment, at least there is some hot crime fiction out there to keep our minds engaged. The lead book in this week’s On the Radar column…

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The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

By DeathBecomesHer

6 August, 2020

The work of Aussie authors is beginning to crowd many a crime fiction lover’s bookshelf and eReader – and with names like Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Helen FitzGerald in the mix, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Is there room for a wee one…

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In the Know by Dougie Brimson

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 August, 2020

This is the third installment in author and screenwriter Dougie Brimson’s crime novels involving former football hooligan, now London car dealer Billy Evans. The word ‘former’ is misleading. Despite Billy’s current respectability, can he ever really escape his thuggish former colleagues, the unending, squint-eyed regard…

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Sisters in Crime announce BAME award winner

By DeathBecomesHer

5 August, 2020

South Carolina author Yasmin McClinton has been named the winner of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Colour Award, which provides a $2,000 grant to an emerging crime fiction writer of colour at the beginning of their career. The award is made…

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Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

By DeathBecomesHer

3 August, 2020

Ooh, I love a book title with a clever pun, and Max Tomlinson’s Tie Die has the added bonus of immediately giving the reader some idea of the era in which it is set. Have you guessed yet? This mystery novel opens in the 1960s…

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Julian Symons

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 August, 2020

This reissue of the late Julian Symons’s biography of Edgar Allan Poe – America’s benighted writer of gothic stories, poetry, and literary criticism – bears an apt title. As we learn, most of the difficulties that plagued Poe’s fascinating and tragic life can be put…

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August 2020

Rabbit Hole by Jon Richter

On the Radar: Ice cold graves, red hot mysteries

The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

In the Know by Dougie Brimson

Sisters in Crime announce BAME award winner

Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

The Tell-Tale Heart by Julian Symons

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