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Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

This year’s festive addition to the British Library Crime Classics series is Susan Gilruth’s Death in Ambush, which was first published in 1952. It is a Christmas-set mystery, yes, but one less about seasonal cheer and more about the tensions, hypocrisies and secrets that lie…
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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…
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He Calls By Night by SDW Hamilton

Fame is a fickle thing. Particularly when a shadowy government agency prevents credit from being given where credit is due. After the death-defying takedown of the Followers of Eden – as detailed in Blood on the Broadcast – Jacob Kincaid expected the associated series of…
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The Vanishing Act by Jo Jakeman

Human remains are discovered in an abandoned engine house outside a small Cornish town, sending locals and internet sleuths aflutter. When rumours as to the identity of the deceased begin to spread, there’s shock, disbelief and an overwhelming desire to crack the case before the…
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