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Post Mortem by David Lagercrantz

3 September, 2026

Translated by Ian Giles — Are you ready for a cold case mystery from Sweden? Professor Hans Rekke and police officer Micaela Vargas team up once again in Post Mortem, the third in Lagercrantz’s series featuring the unlikely duo, following Fatal Gambit (2024) and Dark…

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The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

26 August, 2026

Mexican-Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia has the uncanny ability to jump effortlessly between genres. Gothic horror, fantasy adventure, historical fantasy or sci-fi, magic realism, vampire noir, crime noir, coming-of-age or historical drama, she’s done it all. With The Intrigue, she presents us with a combination of…

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A Taste for Murder by Matt Baker

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

13 August, 2026

First came the book, then the TV series – only just. A Taste for Murder, Matt Baker’s debut novel, was published in the UK in January 2026, with the television series adaptation following in April. To confuse matters further, it was published in the US…

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The Madman by Henning Mankell

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

4 August, 2026

Translated by George Goulding and Sarah de Senarclens — Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell has had a substantial influence on us here at Crime Fiction Lover and his death in 2015 left a glaring gap in the crime fiction landscape. We were thrilled by the…

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Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 July, 2026

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — In two months’ time, an asteroid named Telo is due to hit Fukuoka, Japan, with a kinetic energy equivalent to 45 billion megatons of TNT. “It’s the end of the world as we know it,”‘ as Michael Stipe once sang….

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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 June, 2026

Translated by Frances Riddle — Claudia Piñeiro is one of Argentina’s most translated authors and her novel Elena Knows was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and developed into a Netflix film. In Cathedrals, Piñeiro delivers a psychological family crime novel that focuses…

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The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 June, 2026

Translated by Kristian London — Finnish-born writer Satu Rämö has lived in Iceland for 20 years and won the 2025 Petrona Award for The Clues in the Fjord, the debut in her Hildur series. In the fourth of the series, she returns with a dark…

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Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

7 May, 2026

Astronaut! is a satirical police procedural and coming-of-age story set in the final months of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship in 1989 Romania. At the centre of the story are Constantin, a weary police detective, and Lia, a rebellious schoolgirl. Both have to navigate their daily lives…

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Post Mortem by David Lagercrantz

The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Taste for Murder by Matt Baker

The Madman by Henning Mankell

Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki

Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

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