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Creepy Crawly by Andrew Lowe

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9 June, 2025

Meet DI Jake Sawyer. He’s a tad different from your average British copper and as we first meet him he’s enduring a crowded train journey from London to Sheffield. As they speed through the flatlands of Bedfordshire, passengers are studiously ignoring a bit of a…

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Dept. Q finds a new home in Edinburgh – and on Netflix

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4 June, 2025

Dept. Q, now creating a buzz on Netflix, is based upon the books by Jussi Adler-Olsen, but while the original novels – and the Danish series which followed them – are set in Copenhagen, this iteration roots itself firmly in Edinburgh and uses the location…

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The Chemist by AA Dhand

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1 June, 2025

The Yorkshire city of Leeds has its fair share of leafy suburbs – but there’s little sign of them in AA Dhand’s latest novel, The Chemist. Instead, pharmacist Idris Khan plies his trade in Headingley, an area heavily populated with students, not too far from the…

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The Putney Bridge Killer by Biba Pearce

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22 May, 2025

Fans of the good ol’ police procedural enjoy nothing more than a nice, juicy series, which is why many followers of this sub-genre will already be familiar with author Biba Pearce and her creation, the London-based DCI Rob Miller. We are on book eight, after…

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Nightshade by Michael Connelly

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20 May, 2025

It’s rare for Michael Connelly to release a novel in the springtime – and that’s just one of the things that feels a little different about Nightshade, his 40th book and the first in a new series featuring Detective Stilwell, based on Santa Catalina Island,…

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The Grapevine by Kate Kemp

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28 April, 2025

It’s coming up to Christmas in Canberra, and young Tammy is not looking forward to the long summer holidays. She’s certain the time will drag, and even begs her teacher for a vacation project but instead is told to go and enjoy herself for a…

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Black Water Rising by Sean Watkin

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15 April, 2025

It has been a popular crime fiction setting for years, thanks to the likes of Luca Veste and Kevin Sampson, and Liverpool has seen something of a renaissance lately, helped by The Responder and This City is Ours on the BBC. Time to add another…

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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by LM Chilton

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3 April, 2025

Love it or hate it, social media has inveigled itself into our lives and there’s little chance of escaping its all-encompassing reach. Take WhatsApp, for instance. Once you succumb to its charms, you’ll find yourself in group after group, each one pinging away as members…

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Creepy Crawly by Andrew Lowe

Dept. Q finds a new home in Edinburgh – and on Netflix

The Chemist by AA Dhand

The Putney Bridge Killer by Biba Pearce

Nightshade by Michael Connelly

The Grapevine by Kate Kemp

Black Water Rising by Sean Watkin

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