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The Masked Band by Bernard O'Keeffe

By DeathBecomesHer

7 March, 2025

Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and David Bowie walk into a bar. Could this be the first line of some convoluted joke, maybe? Well, no – because murder is a serious business, is it not? The famous fivesome in question call themselves…

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Sweat by Emma Healey

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19 February, 2025

It’s been almost a decade since we last heard from Elizabeth is Missing author Emma Healey, and just like any good personal trainer, she likes to keep you on your toes. A strange analogy, perhaps, for a writer who leapt to fame with a debut…

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The Wrong Daughter by Dandy Smith

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30 January, 2025

Two young sisters enjoy an idyllic childhood, until one of them is snatched and the family’s world falls apart in Dandy Smith’s psychological thriller The Wrong Daughter, which sets out to grab the reader from the very first page. Olivia is 13, and is proud…

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The Broken River by Chris Hammer

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23 January, 2025

The parched landscape of the Australian outback has provided a compelling backdrop for many a crime novel in recent years. Think of The Dry by Jane Harper, Gabriel Bergmoser’s The Hunted, or Chris Hammer’s debut, Scrublands. But there’s water aplenty in Hammer’s latest, The Broken…

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An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

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10 January, 2025

Last year I read and reviewed Here One Minute by Liane Moriarty, and it changed my attitude to flying. The book’s central character is an elderly woman who stands up on a flight between Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, Australia and proceeds to tell each of…

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Double Takedown by Kevin G Chapman

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7 January, 2025

Ah, New York! Home of Times Square, the Mets, the Met, the Statue of Liberty… the list could go on and on. Oh, but let’s not forget Broadway and NYPD Detective Mike Stoneman – because it’s the latter rather mismatched pairing that features in Kevin…

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