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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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The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry

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24 June, 2025

Crime fiction is full of well-used tropes, from alcoholic detectives to silver sleuths. Even the titles can get into a rut – remember all the ‘The Girl…’ books? On the face of it, Jane Corry‘s The Stranger in Room Six ticks many of the boxes…

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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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Ballard season one on Amazon Prime

A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry

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

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