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Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

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2 September, 2025

Anyone who has ever been to the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough will be familiar with its Castle, Spa, headland and sandy beaches. And anyone who is unfamiliar with the place will feel a little more at home after reading Deadly Dancing at the Seaview…

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The Cut Throat Trial by SJ Fleet

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26 August, 2025

Best known as The Secret Barrister – an author with several non-fiction books under their belt – the shadowy SJ Fleet has finally arrived on the crime fiction scene with their debut The Cut Throat Trial. It’s a compelling mix of Rumpole of the Bailey…

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Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh

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5 August, 2025

No good deed goes unpunished, according to the oft-quoted saying. So where does that leave us in these random-act-of-kindness days? In deep doo-doo, if Steve Cavanagh’s latest Eddie Flynn novel is to be believed. Two Kinds of Stranger opens with TikToker Elly Parker heading through…

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The Inside Man by Trevor Wood

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4 August, 2025

Over many, many decades, fictional detectives have relied on their brains – the ‘little grey cells’ as one of the clan’s most famed members, Hercule Poirot, would put it – to tackle the most complicated of cases. But what if that mind isn’t firing on…

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The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

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1 August, 2025

It is nine long years since Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Cabin 10 made its considerable mark on the publishing world. Ware is an author known for her standalones, but with the Woman in Suite 11 she has broken that mould to create a sequel….

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Harrogate 2025: Old hands and new faces

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20 July, 2025

You might think that an event chaired by the creator of Slow Horses could prove a tad unpredictable, and you’d be right. Mick Herron, at the helm of the 2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, brought an element of surprise to four days of…

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Ballard season one on Amazon Prime

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15 July, 2025

Michael Connelly’s streaming universe – already home to Bosch, Bosch: Legacy and The Lincoln Lawyer – has expanded further with the arrival of Ballard on Amazon Prime. We first met LAPD detective Renee Ballard on screen in the final episode of Bosch: Legacy season three,…

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A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

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14 July, 2025

We crime fiction lovers do enjoy a good book festival – but for all the cloak and dagger and fake crime scene tape that abound there, I don’t imagine that many of us have actually discovered an honest-to-goodness murder victim at one. That dubious pleasure…

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Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

The Cut Throat Trial by SJ Fleet

Two Kinds of Stranger by Steve Cavanagh

The Inside Man by Trevor Wood

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

Harrogate 2025: Old hands and new faces

Ballard season one on Amazon Prime

A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

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