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Deadly Autumn Harvest by Tony Mott

Translated by Marina Sofia — Unlike Britain or America, some countries have little tradition of crime fiction writing. During the communist era, Romania produced spy novels targeting the West as the bad guys and you can see this approach lampooned in the frankly incredible Amazon…
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The Clearing by Simon Toyne

Fans of international bestseller Simon Toyne will know that he deals heavily in mood and atmosphere – the Sanctus and Solomon Creed trilogies confirmed that. Now he’s back with a follow-up to 2022’s Dark Objects, which introduced Dr Laughton Rees. The Clearing sees the return…
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Zero Kill by MK Hill

There was a time when kickass – and we mean proper kickass – female protagonists were thin in the ground. No longer. Antony Johnson gave us Lorraine Broughton in the graphic novel Coldest City in 2012, we’ve experienced the quirky-but-extreme violence of Villanelle in Luke…
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The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry

Former Reuters journalist Freya Berry made a big splash last year with her exceptional debut thriller, The Dictator’s Wife. Inspired by the lives of women married to powerful men, it became a Between The Covers pick on BBC Two and a critical and commercial success….
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The End of Us by Olivia Kiernan

An author never quite knows what we readers will take to and Olivia Kiernan‘s tough, compassionate protagonist DCI Frankie Sheehan of the Dublin Garda has garnered plenty of fans. With The End of Us, the author steps away from Frankie’s four novels of pain and…
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