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Vengeance by JK Flynn

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14 September, 2023

Fans of the police procedural should add the name of JK Flynn to their TBR list as an author to watch out for. Flynn’s debut, The Art Merchant, introduced us to DS Esther Penman, who is based in the fictional English town of Belfield and…

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The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

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30 August, 2023

North Devon tourist board must have been rubbing their hands with glee when Ann Cleeves announced that her new series of books featuring DI Matthew Venn was to be set in their neck of the woods – after all, look what the Vera and Shetland…

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Case Sensitive by AK Turner

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10 August, 2023

A mysterious knocking on the side of a canal boat provides the opening gambit in Case Sensitive, the latest book from AK Turner. A bit of flotsam? A disgruntled swan perhaps? Nope, the culprit is a body – and when the person woken by the…

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All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins

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4 August, 2023

Bonnie and Clyde: a notorious pair of killers and robbers who terrorised central USA in the time of the Great Depression. Their crimes made them famous, and that fame was rekindled in the late 1960s with a movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and…

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Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary

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25 July, 2023

Many people dream of living in an idyllic place, enjoying comfort and security in a gorgeous new home with all mod cons. But be careful what you wish for… Sarah Hilary’s new standalone paints a grim picture of achieving those goals – because sometimes, there…

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Interview: Sarah Hilary

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27 June, 2023

We first met Sarah Hilary in 2014, with Someone Else’s Skin – her crime debut, which introduced us to London-based DI Marnie Rome and ended up winning Theakston’s 2015 Crime Novel of the Year. The series eventually ran to six books, but then Hilary turned her attention…

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Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

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26 June, 2023

Chris Brookmyre and his wife Dr Marisa Haetzman took that old adage of ‘write what you know’ to heart when they came up with The Way of all Flesh, first in a series of historical crime novels set in Victorian Edinburgh. Brookmyre, after all, is…

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An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb by Louise Wolhuter

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14 June, 2023

Small towns, with their insular attitudes and tight-lipped inhabitants, are a rich hunting ground for crime fiction authors – think City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita, Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth or any Miss Marple mystery. You know the drill… stranger arrives in town, crime…

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Vengeance by JK Flynn

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

Case Sensitive by AK Turner

All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins

Black Thorn by Sarah Hilary

Interview: Sarah Hilary

Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb by Louise Wolhuter

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