2024

Prey by Vanda Symon

15 August, 2024

A new Sam Shephard book from Vanda Symon always creates a buzz of excitement for fans of the New Zealand author, and Prey is sixth in the series. Here, Shephard will investigate a cold case – the murder of Reverend Mark Freeman, a highly regarded…

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Bonehead by Mo Hayder

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

13 August, 2024

In 1999 the world was introduced to British writer Mo Hayder’s violent and disconcerting debut, Birdman. She went on to write 10 more crime novels, including seven in the Jack Caffery series, before she unexpectedly passed away of motor neurone disease in 2021. Readers lamented…

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Venom in the Blood by Tracy Buchanan

By DeathBecomesHer

11 August, 2024

There’s an attractive cobweb on the cover of Venom in the Blood. No sign of its creator, thankfully – it would certainly put this arachnophobe reader off if a big hairy spider took centre stage. Instead, the creepy crawlies feature heavily within the pages of…

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On the Radar: Midsummer Mysteries and more...

By crimefictionlover

9 August, 2024

There’s always more, more, more hot summer crime fiction here on CFL and we can either cool you off with some Swedish crime fiction care of David Lagercrantz, or bring you some British heat with the Midsummer Mysteries collection from the Crime Writers Association. Plus,…

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Last Night at Villa Lucia by Simon McCleave

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 August, 2024

What could be more appealing than a murder mystery set in an elegant villa high on a hill overlooking the Tuscan countryside? Prolific crime novelist Simon McCleave’s Last Night at Villa Lucia feels like a vacation from the first page, as the villa’s English owner…

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Correction Line by Craig Terlson

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 August, 2024

The new edition of Canadian author Craig Terlson’s Correction Line underscores how badly off track a person can get if they just keep doing what they’re doing. The ‘correction line’ of the title refers to the late-19th century project to survey and divide the Canadian…

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The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

By RoughJustice

5 August, 2024

Kansas author Scott Phillips’s first novel, The Ice Harvest, was a critical and commercial hit in 2000. A movie adaptation, starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, was released in 2005. It’s also by some distance his most conventional crime novel, and since then Phillips…

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Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh

By Sharon Richardson

2 August, 2024

Eddie Flynn, the fictional conman turned lawyer, is back. Prizewinning author, Steve Cavanagh has added an eighth book to this popular series and, coincidence or not, the title is Witness 8. This time, Eddie agrees to defend John Jackson, a paediatric brain surgeon who has…

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Prey by Vanda Symon

Bonehead by Mo Hayder

Venom in the Blood by Tracy Buchanan

On the Radar: Midsummer Mysteries and more...

Last Night at Villa Lucia by Simon McCleave

Correction Line by Craig Terlson

The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips

Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh

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