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Written by Christopher Fowler — It often feels like you have hit the jackpot when you fall in love with books featuring terrific fictional characters…
Written by Christopher Fowler — It often feels like you have hit the jackpot when you fall in love with books featuring terrific fictional characters…
One of the best things about the crime fiction genre is the passion of the authors working in it. They put no end of research…
Written by Nicola Upson — Those who enjoy Nicola Upson’s series featuring unconventional crime writer Josephine Tey, cast as a detective, will be used to the…
Written by Helen Cox — This debut mystery book by the author of two romantic novels is a mash up of cosy crime, comedy, romance,…
Catherine Turnbull reports on the 2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate Who’d have thought it? Turns out Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon…
When the assassination of the scientist behind Hitler’s miracle jet fighter is ordered, there is only one man who can do the job – burned…
Written by Howard Linskey — When the assassination of the scientist behind Hitler’s miracle jet fighter is ordered, there is only one man who can…
Written by Sara Sheridan — In the scheme of things across the genre, the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries fall into the cosy crime category. But like…
If you’ve read the previous two adventures by Rory Clements featuring Cambridge professor Tom Wilde, you will know that he has little time to bury himself in…
Written by Nuala Ellwood — You may have been looking forward to picking up this second book by Nuala Ellwood, following her debut thriller, My Sister’s Bones.…
Written by Agustin Martínez, translated by Frank Wynne — This missing persons thriller, with its twists racing through the hairpin bends of the Pyrenees, is a…
Written by Rory Clements — If you’ve read the previous two adventures featuring Cambridge professor Tom Wilde you will know that he has little time to…
This gives Jane Harper’s debut The Dry a run for its money in my book as the location returns to the Australian Outback after a trip to the…
This year has seen a host of authors who won prizes for their bestselling debuts bring out second and third books, and I think they…
Written by Jane Harper – It was only last year that Val McDermid highlighted Jane Harper’s debut The Dry during her New Blood session at…
Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death is a comedy crime caper set in the West Country’s goriest market town where crucifixions are executed near…