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The Blockchain Syndicate by Robbie Bach

By Dave Bradley

27 October, 2025

You’d be forgiven for being intimidated by the title of this thriller. Blockchain is the database technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and those briefly trendy but controversial NFTs – but you don’t have to understand any of it. Rest assured, this is a techno-thriller in…

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The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper

By Dave Bradley

22 September, 2025

The crime at the heart of The Creeping Hand Murder, from the You Are the Detective series, is the exact opposite of a locked-room mystery. The deed takes place in a drawing room full of people. Many characters had opportunity, means and motive, with the…

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Memento Mori: New Spanish crime thriller on Walter Presents

By Dave Bradley

6 May, 2025

Memento Mori is a six-part series about the hunt for a serial killer in the Spanish city of Valladolid. It’s perfect viewing if you want a dark, melancholy mystery in your life right about now. Airing on Channel 4 in the UK on Sunday 11…

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Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

By Dave Bradley

23 January, 2025

A computer game is perhaps an unexpected addition to Crime Fiction Lover’s feature section. But Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse might just make you reach for your keyboard instead of cracking the spine on a new novel. The fourth entry in HitherYon’s Murder…

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You Can’t Hurt Me by Emma Cook

By Dave Bradley

7 November, 2024

This is Emma Cook’s first crime novel, but it arrives with the confidence of an accomplished author. And so it should, because although this standalone mystery is her first book of genre fiction, Cook is an experienced newspaper editor and author of several non-fiction works….

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A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Dave Bradley

10 June, 2024

When most people think of Shirley Jackson, they think of horror. The Haunting of Hill House is often cited as the archetypal 20th-century ghost story. Even scaremonger-in-chief Stephen King regards Shirley Jackson as a major influence, devoting 30 pages of his 1982 memoir Danse Macabre…

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Razor Country by Nicholas Wagner

By Dave Bradley

2 April, 2024

Sometimes, a book takes you by surprise. In an age where cosy crime is having a resurgence and shop shelves creak with hybrid novels more romance than thriller, Razor Country comes along and punches you in the gut. This hardboiled collection of tales by author…

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Far Out by Khaled Talib

By Dave Bradley

9 January, 2024

There’s a grand tradition of Saturday afternoon action TV. The 1970s and 80s treated us to high-concept episodic crime capers in sun-kissed locations, all car chases and shout-outs, every mystery solved with a seemingly endless supply of ammunition and helicopters. The Fall Guy. Magnum PI….

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The Blockchain Syndicate by Robbie Bach

The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper

Memento Mori: New Spanish crime thriller on Walter Presents

Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

You Can’t Hurt Me by Emma Cook

A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Razor Country by Nicholas Wagner

Far Out by Khaled Talib

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