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The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

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14 September, 2020

Department store security men. You probably never even notice them but being inconspicuous comes with the job description, I imagine. So Jim definitely fits the bill as he patrols the aisles of a shop in Cork in the Republic of Ireland. He’s an ex garda…

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House of Correction by Nicci French

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9 September, 2020

Husband and wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French are probably best known for their series featuring London-based psychotherapist Frieda Klein, which reached its finale in 2018 with The Day of the Dead. Since then the pair has focussed on standalone crime novels and…

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The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

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3 September, 2020

Can it really be 21 years since the first Vera Stanhope novel was published? There have been a further eight releases since The Crow Trap, and The Darkest Evening has been eagerly awaited by fans of this series. Many of those readers may have been…

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The Coral Bride by Roxanne Bouchard

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1 September, 2020

Translated by David Warriner — Can you remember the plot details of a book you read a couple of years ago? If you’re a crime fiction lover like me, you may tend to get through quite a few over the months. And they’re all so…

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The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone

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19 August, 2020

We first met the Edinburgh-based Skelf family at the start of this year, in the highly memorable and original A Dark Matter. Now they’re back, and the dramas of that series opener are still reverberating. Matriarch Dorothy misses her late husband terribly, and as she…

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The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

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6 August, 2020

The work of Aussie authors is beginning to crowd many a crime fiction lover’s bookshelf and eReader – and with names like Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Helen FitzGerald in the mix, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Is there room for a wee one…

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Sisters in Crime announce BAME award winner

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5 August, 2020

South Carolina author Yasmin McClinton has been named the winner of the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Colour Award, which provides a $2,000 grant to an emerging crime fiction writer of colour at the beginning of their career. The award is made…

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Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

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3 August, 2020

Ooh, I love a book title with a clever pun, and Max Tomlinson’s Tie Die has the added bonus of immediately giving the reader some idea of the era in which it is set. Have you guessed yet? This mystery novel opens in the 1960s…

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The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

House of Correction by Nicci French

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

The Coral Bride by Roxanne Bouchard

The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone

The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

Sisters in Crime announce BAME award winner

Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

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