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The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz

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23 January, 2023

There’s a balancing act to be performed while reading the House at the End of the World. You may need to keep a dictionary at hand to fathom out some of the little-used words that this author sprinkles liberally through his prose – but on…

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Three Pines on Amazon Prime

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17 January, 2023

Fans of Canadian crime fiction author Louise Penny are already familiar with Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Now viewers can catch up with him and his team in an eight-episode series on Amazon Prime. Gamache has been described as the French Canadian…

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City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

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13 January, 2023

If December released a rash of Christmas-related novels into the crime fiction universe, it appears that January brings the snow. New Year’s Day is still a recent memory, but already in 2023 we’ve reviewed Cold People by Tom Rob Smith, set in the Antarctic, and…

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Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer

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7 January, 2023

There’s many an Aussie author who has travailed the dusty trails, inhospitable terrain and forgotten towns of the Outback in recent years – Garry Disher, Jane Harper and Chris Hammer, for example. The latter returns to the country’s rural landscape for Dead Man’s Creek, the…

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Dancing with Dusty Fossils by Karen Charlton

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3 January, 2023

We first met Bobbie and Jemma of the York Ladies’ Detective Agency in Smoke and Cracked Mirrors in April 2022, and now the historical crime fiction whirlwind that is Karen Charlton is treating us to book two in the series. Britain is embroiled in World…

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DeathBecomesHer: Top Five Books of 2022

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26 December, 2022

I’ve had 10 years of doing this and it doesn’t get any easier, I can tell you. Crime fiction is such an eclectic genre but even so it is easy to get stuck into a rut. This year I endeavoured to move a little outside…

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On the Radar: Survival of the fittest

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16 December, 2022

Today Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution step to the fore in our new books column. Darwin was Right has a title that might make you laugh out loud for its directness, while the story will evoke a range of emotions. In addition to…

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Murder at the Christmas Carols by Izzie Harper

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12 December, 2022

When we last heard from Vicky Newham, she was deep in the East End of London, following the trail of DI Maya Rahman. That was back in 2019, when Out of the Ashes was just pipped at the post for a place in my Top…

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The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz

Three Pines on Amazon Prime

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

Dead Man's Creek by Chris Hammer

Dancing with Dusty Fossils by Karen Charlton

DeathBecomesHer: Top Five Books of 2022

On the Radar: Survival of the fittest

Murder at the Christmas Carols by Izzie Harper

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