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The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate

By Vicki Weisfeld

30 October, 2025

Right from the title you’ll know Merle Nygate’s new political thriller will be provocative. It echoes the notorious antisemitic conspiracy theory, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claimed to be a true account of Jewish plans to take over the world. This screed…

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Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 October, 2025

Word-lovers, rejoice! Susie Dent’s debut murder mystery, Guilty by Definition, thrusts a cold case right into the middle of a group of lexicographers, working in the Oxford offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary. The fictional organisation is no doubt a stand-in for the OED. The…

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Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 October, 2025

Morgan Hatch’s debut thriller, Gone to Ground, is like a pyramid of Southern California crime and rich in unscrupulous invention. The story takes place mostly in an impoverished area of the East San Fernando Valley and involves the full spectrum of people struggling to get…

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The Meaning of the Murder by Walter B Levis

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 September, 2025

Billed as a literary approach to the topic of murder, Walter B Levis’s The Meaning of the Murder has a lot of plusses and, for me, a few minuses. He avoids all the cheap-shot cop story tropes, the too-easy slotting of characters into good cop/bad…

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How to Surf a Hurricane by Todd Medema

By Vicki Weisfeld

16 August, 2025

Reading a debut novel like Todd Medema’s How to Surf a Hurricane offers a bit of an extra thrill. Not only do you experience the events, characters and settings of the story itself, but you also see a process of writing at work. Yes, maybe…

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Divinity Games by Lou Gilmond

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 August, 2025

If you begin to think Lou Gilmond’s new thriller Divinity Games is actually a report from the near future, you would be forgiven. Many of the plot elements she has assembled in this eye-opening book parallel current trends here in the US, Britain and around…

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Nightswimming by Melanie Anagnos

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 July, 2025

Patterson, New Jersey, is the setting for this debut police procedural by Melanie Anagnos, a native of the town. It’s a bittersweet love letter to her native city, the former mill town that is one of the largest in the dense cluster of New York…

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Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 July, 2025

Acclaimed crime and mystery author Laura Lippman has produced her first cosy mystery, and it’s a delight from beginning to end. You may know her as the author of the Baltimore, Maryland-based Tess Monaghan series, and Murder Takes a Vacation is, as they say, Monaghan-adjacent….

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The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

The Meaning of the Murder by Walter B Levis

How to Surf a Hurricane by Todd Medema

Divinity Games by Lou Gilmond

Nightswimming by Melanie Anagnos

Murder Takes a Vacation by Laura Lippman

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