2024

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

11 September, 2024

Guide Me Home is the third and final book in Attica Locke’s Highway 59 trilogy about Darren Mathews, a Texas Ranger who is black. We first met Darren in Bluebird, Bluebird in 2017, which went on to win Edgar and CWA Steel Dagger awards. But…

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First look: Huge Detective

By crimefictionlover

11 September, 2024

Comic book writer Adam Rose loves crime fiction. And crime fiction lovers might just love his latest comic, published by Titan. Taking inspiration from the genre, Rose has written a five-comic series about an FBI agent called Tamaki who teams up with a giant detective…

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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

By Paul Burke

10 September, 2024

Even today, Agatha Christie still outsells nearly all other crime fiction writers and our fascination with her clever, quiet amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple, is evergreen. That is obvious from the continuing popularity of the TV series, even as the batten is handed between actors…

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On the Radar: Puzzling cases to solve

By crimefictionlover

6 September, 2024

There are strong themes of Golden Age, cosy and puzzle mysteries in this week’s new books report, which includes works by Martin Edwards, Stephanie Austin, Maureen Jennings, Leigh Russell and JD Kirk. Most of them take us to places real and fictional in the British…

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Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald

By Erin Britton

4 September, 2024

Bed, breakfast and… butchery? It’s not exactly what Ally McKinley had in mind when she decamped from Edinburgh to run a guesthouse in the picturesque village of Locharran in the Scottish Highlands, but she soon discovers that murder and the solving thereof offer a great…

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Precipice by Robert Harris

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 September, 2024

Robert Harris launched his career writing fiction with Fatherland in 1992, speculative historical piece that looked at what might have happened had the Nazis won World War II. For over 30 years, his historical thrillers and espionage novels have gained a huge following. In his…

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Mick Herron's Slow Horses reaches season four on Apple TV+

By DeathBecomesHer

3 September, 2024

With a loud trump and a pithy put-down, Jackson Lamb and his motley bunch of MI5 failures return to Apple TV+ from 4 Sept 2024, for the fourth season of Slow Horses, based on the award-winning novels of Mick Herron. The latest outing takes its…

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On the Radar: We read crime novels

By crimefictionlover

30 August, 2024

Yes, that’s what we do around here, and the folks in the novels solve the crimes, just as the title of Richard Osman’s latest novel tells us. The other books we have in this week’s report are less prosaic in their titling but equally interesting…

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Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

First look: Huge Detective

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

On the Radar: Puzzling cases to solve

Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald

Precipice by Robert Harris

Mick Herron's Slow Horses reaches season four on Apple TV+

On the Radar: We read crime novels

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