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The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

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Double CFL Award winner Elly Griffiths has been writing about forensic archeologist Dr Ruth Galloway since 2009. We’re up to book 14, and while some writers might be flagging by this point The Locked Room reveals an author right on the top of her game….
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Panic Room

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Written by Robert Goddard — Panic Room is Robert Goddard’s 27th thriller, this time based in Cornwall, a county renowned for its misty legends and remote locations. It promises one of his trademark, tightly constructed plots, which are methodically planned. However, as Goddard told us in his…
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The Meating Room

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Written by TF Muir — St Andrews is headquarters of the Royal and Ancient and the home of golf. Obviously, it is a sedate, peaceful place where the only sound to be heard is the smacking of golf balls and the occasional muttered curse from…
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Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen

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Oskar Jensen’s Helle & Death is an ingenious mystery that embraces several beloved tropes from the Golden Age of Murder – the country house murder, the locked room mystery and the closed circle of suspects – but brings them firmly into the 21st century with…
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The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead

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Tom Mead’s debut, Death and the Conjuror, introduced us to amateur sleuth Joseph Spector. It landed with a splash, readers taken with the author’s ingenious double locked-room murder mystery, which played well on one of the oldest formats in the genre. The Murder Wheel is…
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