2021

On the Radar: Toot! Toot! Jim Stringer is back!

15 January, 2021

There are certain writers and series that you can count on to raise the spirits of crime fiction lovers at this dark time, as the world battles coronavirus. Andrew Martin and his railway detective character Jim Stringer are among that number. When Martin’s new book,…

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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 January, 2021

Debut author Julie Carrick Dalton deserves praise for making concerns about important social issues – climate change and immigration – an integral part of her new novel. It isn’t always easy to do that without turning a book into a lecture or consciousness-raising exercise. In…

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Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

By DeathBecomesHer

13 January, 2021

Kate Aitken left New York under a cloud, heading to California and a new start. In the Big Apple she was a journalist, caught up in the buzz and excitement of the vibrant city; now in the little coastal town of Callinas she is living…

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The Captive by Deborah O’Connor

By Catherine Turnbull

12 January, 2021

If you knew that if you pressed charges against the man who had murdered your loved one, you would be forced to host the prisoner in your home, would you do it? Or would you refuse to go ahead with the conviction? That’s the dilemma…

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The Lost and the Damned

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

12 January, 2021

The first of Olivier Norek’s Banlieue trilogy is set in the notorious Seine-Sainte-Denis district, where Norek lives and where he has worked for the past 18 years as a police lieutenant. At the centre of The Lost and the Damned is Capitaine Victor Coste from…

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Winterkill

By crimefictionlover

12 January, 2021

The sixth and possibly final novel in Ragnar Jonasson‘s Dark Iceland series might just be the best. It’s the writing that’s so captivating – thanks in part to translator David Warriner, but also because of the considered way Ragnar highlights the issues that surround a…

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Peace

By DeathBecomesHer

12 January, 2021

When you’re the only cop in a quiet cop shop in a corner of South Australia’s farming community, Christmas should be a doddle, shouldn’t it? Not so for Constable Paul ‘Hirsch’ Hirschhausen in Garry Disher’s follow up to the excellent Bitter Wash Road. It’s all…

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The Dead of Winter

By Catherine Turnbull

12 January, 2021

Nicola Upson continues her series featuring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey and embraces the tradition of the classic country estate mystery in this thrilling homage to the genre. The Dead of Winter is a festive whodunit set in December 1938, as storm clouds of…

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On the Radar: Toot! Toot! Jim Stringer is back!

Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

The Captive by Deborah O’Connor

The Lost and the Damned

Winterkill

Peace

The Dead of Winter

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