The mirror man

The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2022

Translated by Alice Menzies — The key to a really good serial killer thriller is a dark foreboding atmosphere and this novel has it in abundance. When you read The Mirror Man you feel the temperature plummet. The bestselling Swedish writing duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril…

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Romanian espionage with Spy/Master on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

1 May, 2024

Do you love spy fiction? Do you thrive on subtitles? How does a Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy vibe grab you? If we’re speaking your language then you’ll be thrilled to discover that the Romanian series Spy/Master starts on BBC Four in the UK at 9pm…

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On the Radar: Mirror, mirror in the attic

By crimefictionlover

23 February, 2024

Don’t know about you, but I, for one, am intrigued to see Oscar Wilde’s the ageless Dorian Gray appear in a crime novel alongside Sherlock Holmes. Wow! The Classified Dossier has finally been revealed by crime author Christian Klaver and it looks like the perfect…

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Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 October, 2022

British author Guy Morpuss was a barrister and QC, and saw some unusual cases during his 30-year legal career, but certainly none so strange as the one he crafts in Black Lake Manor. His second novel after Five Minds, it’s a dark, complex mystery, set…

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Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2022

Anyone who has ever been to York will have been struck by the city’s palpable sense of history. It boasts Roman walls and medieval streets, with the ancient York Minster imperiously towering above it all. But it is more recent occurrences that have inspired Karen…

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On the Radar: New German crime fiction, and more

By crimefictionlover

11 June, 2021

This week our new crime books column gets started with a bestseller from Germany by the country’s new star writer, Romy Hausmann. We’ve also got senseless crimes in Southampton, the new Skelfs novel by Doug Johnstone, a novel from Downton Abbey’s Catherine Steadman and an…

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Hall of Mirrors

By Purity Brown

8 April, 2018

Written by Christopher Fowler — Hall of Mirrors is the 15th novel in Christopher Fowler’s Bryant and May series, adding to over 40 books the author has written in total. Fowler always manages to keep things fresh, and Hall of Mirrors is no exception. This…

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The Man Who Watched Women buy Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt

By Jeremy Megraw

14 August, 2015

Translated by Marlaine Delargy — In this suspenseful serial killer thriller, Stockholm is beset by a heatwave and a series of brutal killings of young women. The national police homicide unit, Riksmord, realises early on that the ritualistic killings are copycat crimes. They mirror perfectly the…

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The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

Romanian espionage with Spy/Master on BBC Four

On the Radar: Mirror, mirror in the attic

Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

Smoke and Cracked Mirrors by Karen Charlton

On the Radar: New German crime fiction, and more

Hall of Mirrors

The Man Who Watched Women buy Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt

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