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The Final Episode by Lori Roy

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Why one story totally captures my attention and another doesn’t, I can’t always pinpoint. It’s some ineffable yet powerful characteristic that goes beyond plot, character and setting. For whatever reasons Lori Roy’s new thriller, The Final Episode, kept me spellbound. She provides a great set-up…
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Sayulita Sucker by Craig Terlson

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The new crime thriller, Sayulita Sucker by Canadian author Craig Terlson, takes readers for a wild ride to back alleys and dicey neighbourhoods in coastal Mexico that aren’t featured in any guidebook. The story’s protagonist is Luke Fischer, who has featured in three of Terlson’s…
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The Lizard by Domenic Stansberry

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Domenic Stansberry’s new noir mystery takes it slow, unravelling in beautiful prose the confounding situation of its protagonist, political ghostwriter SE Reynolds. Stansberry – who hasn’t published a novel in almost a decade – has won numerous prizes including an Edgar Award and a Hammett…
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Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann

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Translated by Amy Bojang — Fifteen years since it was published, German author Leonie Swann’s detective thriller Big Bad Wool has finally been translated into English. It’s the follow-up to Swann’s popular mystery Three Bags Full, which itself has appeared in over 30 languages and…
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The Murder Show by Matt Goldman

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Author Matt Goldman is part of that tribe of television writers who have made a successful jump into print. These authors have in common their ability to establish steadily rising action with no lulls and visual imaginations that let them describe scenes so that readers…
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Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider

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Translated by Astrid Freuler — We’ve been reviewing Hansjörg Schneider’s entertaining stories about the frustrations of Peter Hunkeler, an aging and cynical detective (now retired) of the police force of Basel, Switzerland, ever since The Basel Killings was translated into English in 2021. Basel is…
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