Erin Britton

The Party at No 5 by Shelley Smith

By Erin Britton

23 September, 2026

There is something distinctly unsettling about the idea of being trapped in your own house. It should be the place where you can retreat from the outside world, shut the door and feel safe. But what happens when the person making your life unbearable is…

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The Butterfly House by Teresa Solana

By Erin Britton

17 September, 2026

Translated by Peter Bush — Teresa Solana’s The Butterfly House is an idiosyncratic crime novel in which murder, family complications, police politics and the economic woes of Barcelona become increasingly entangled. It follows Black Storms as the second instalment in Solana’s series featuring Deputy Inspector…

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The Honourable Member for Murder by David Weir

By Erin Britton

16 September, 2026

Politics and murder. Both involve secrets, competing agendas, carefully managed public appearances and, occasionally, people prepared to do almost anything to get what they want. In The Honourable Member for Murder, David Weir brings the two together in a debut that combines Westminster intrigue and…

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The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

3 September, 2026

As the Fairway Players continue to prove in Janice Hallett’s sequel to The Appeal, amateur dramatics and murder are a perfect double act. Put a group of ambitious performers in a village hall, add a few bruised egos, romantic complications and questionable life choices, and…

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An Uncommonly Festive Fiasco by Hannah Hendy

By Erin Britton

1 September, 2026

Christmas and crime go together like port and stilton. Turkey and stuffing. Sprouts and a cracked window. Indeed, snowbound country houses, mysterious deaths beneath the mistletoe and decadent festive gatherings where everyone has a secret to hide have become familiar ingredients of the seasonal mystery….

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The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson

By Erin Britton

27 August, 2026

There are few writers more closely associated with the impossible crime than John Dickson Carr. Writing as Carter Dickson, he introduced Sir Henry Merrivale, one of the Golden Age’s most unconventional detectives, a man capable of turning even the most bewildering murder into an opportunity…

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A Fatal Legacy by Charlotte Vassell

By Erin Britton

25 August, 2026

All is not well at the Horatio Combe Institute in Priory Square, Camden, London. And it’s not just the mokomokai who are looking peaky. Owner/operator Digby Coombe-Watson – descendent of notorious colonial pilferer Horatio Coombe – has been murdered. And on a rug rumoured to…

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The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

By Erin Britton

19 August, 2026

Joanna Wallace’s debut novel, You’d Look Better as a Ghost, introduced one of the most delightfully unlikely protagonists in contemporary crime fiction: Claire, an artist, a grieving daughter and an unapologetic serial killer whose moral compass points in directions all her own. It is a…

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The Party at No 5 by Shelley Smith

The Butterfly House by Teresa Solana

The Honourable Member for Murder by David Weir

The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett

An Uncommonly Festive Fiasco by Hannah Hendy

The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson

A Fatal Legacy by Charlotte Vassell

The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

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