2022

Marple: Twelve New Stories

By Erin Britton

23 September, 2022

While Agatha Christie eventually grew tired of Hercule Poirot, describing him as ‘an egocentric creep’ and devising a deeply divisive ending for him, she retained her affection for the far more personable Miss Jane Marple. From her first appearance in The Tuesday Night Club, a…

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On the Radar: Crows, kings and crazy presidents

By crimefictionlover

23 September, 2022

It’s a very exciting week if you’re a crime fiction lover. New books are coming from established authors and debutantes alike and they involve crows, crime kings and even a crazy president. The latter comes to us care of the prolific American author James Patterson,…

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Azabu Getaway by Michael Pronko

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 September, 2022

Murder, kidnapping, blackmail and yakuza. American author Michael Pronko’s fifth novel in the Detective Hiroshi series has all the elements of a classic police procedural with a dash of extra action to raise the blood pressure. The Tokyo resident sets the novel in the city…

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Sherlock Holmes & Mr Hyde by Christian Klaver

By Erin Britton

21 September, 2022

From marauding Martians to the Gentleman Ghost, Arsène Lupin to Fantômas, the Phantom of the Opera to the nefarious Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes has faced some of literature’s greatest villains. Faced them and thwarted them. Yet, when faced with a real-life foe in Christian Klaver’s…

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Harm by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

By crimefictionlover

20 September, 2022

Translated by Quentin Bates — Following on from The Fox and Silenced, Harm is the latest in the Dark Iceland series by Sólveig Pálsdottir, in which Reykjavik detectives Gudgier Fransson and Elsa Gudrún investigate murder cases. As Iceland has a small population and a minuscule…

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Icelandic crime show Sisterhood comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

16 September, 2022

Nordic crime fiction returns to Walter Presents today with the box set of the Icelandic crime drama Sisterhood now available to stream! Not so much a mystery, this is a show that looks at dark secrets from the past and what happens when they resurface…

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On the Radar: Get ready to be spooked

By DeathBecomesHer

16 September, 2022

It might be a little early to start planning for Halloween but if you’re looking for some horror x crime fiction then this week’s lead book is for you. A Sliver of Darkness by British author CJ Tudor includes 11 short stories full of terror….

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Grave Issue by Julia Vaughan

By DeathBecomesHer

15 September, 2022

On the face of it DCI Kath Fortune isn’t your typical crime fiction protagonist. She runs a cold case team in Shropshire, smokes like a chimney, has recently lost weight, is finally in a relationship with a man she has loved from afar for years…

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Marple: Twelve New Stories

On the Radar: Crows, kings and crazy presidents

Azabu Getaway by Michael Pronko

Sherlock Holmes & Mr Hyde by Christian Klaver

Harm by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

Icelandic crime show Sisterhood comes to Walter Presents

On the Radar: Get ready to be spooked

Grave Issue by Julia Vaughan

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