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The American Boyfriend by Ivy Ngeow

2 October, 2023

For Phoebe Wong, exchanging the miserable British weather for the balmy Florida Keys with her new boyfriend for a few weeks seems like the ideal vacation, even though she only met Carter 11 months ago on LinkedIn and they haven’t spent much time together. He’s…

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The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 September, 2023

Translated by Sarah Death — She’s back. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is no longer the Lisbeth Salander we were introduced to 18 years ago in Stieg Larsson’s first Millennium novel. Now older and more responsible, Lisbeth is co-owner of Milton Security with her…

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Cult by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

7 September, 2023

Translated by Ian Giles — Bestselling Swedish author Camilla Lackberg teamed up with celebrity mentalist Henrik Fexeus to write Trapped, which was published last year. Now, the pair have returned with the second in the series featuring germophobe police officer, Mina Dabiri, and obsessive compulsive…

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The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Älexander McCall Smith

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 August, 2023

Think back to the most violent, twisted and darkest Scandinavian crime fiction you’ve ever read. Now imagine the polar opposite and you might be close to Alexander McCall Smith‘s Scandi Blanc series – his own cosy version of Nordic Noir. You won’t find graphic murders…

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Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 July, 2023

When Mrs Joyce Newbury brings her boss, Percy Dvořáček, his morning coffee and warmed up chocolate muffin, it’s not received as positively as usual. Possibly because the British minister for personal information has a large hole in the back of his head and is quite…

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Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

5 July, 2023

Seven women. A man’s head. Who swung the axe that killed Jamie Spellman? Rose Wilding’s debut novel is about the anger of women who are not heard and what happens when they take justice into their own hands. It’s 31 December 1999, the eve of…

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After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 June, 2023

Regular Crime Fiction Lover readers will recall that The Woman in the Library won Best Indie Novel in our 2022 awards. Now Australian publisher Ultimo Press has released After She Wrote him in the UK, a book that was initially published as Crossing the Lines…

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Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 June, 2023

Canadian author Christopher Huang’s new crime caper might not have the brutal one-liners of Succession, but it does have an unscrupulous patriarch who takes pleasure in manipulating and pitting his three children against one another – even after his death. April 1921: Sir Lawrence Linwood…

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The American Boyfriend by Ivy Ngeow

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff

Cult by Camilla Lackberg and Henrik Fexeus

The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by Älexander McCall Smith

Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

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