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Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 March, 2023

Yes, the eponymous protagonist of Liz Nugent’s new crime mystery, Strange Sally Diamond, is strange. And for good reason. Sally lives a mile outside a small village in Ireland’s sparsely populated County Roscommon. Alone with her father since her mother died several years earlier, Sally…

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Crimeucopia – We'll Be Right Back – After This!

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 February, 2023

When you’re not in the mood to tackle a whole novel, reading a short story or two, or 12, can fill the bill. This new Crimeucopia collection from Murderous Ink Press titled We’ll Be Right Back – After This! is a good one to keep…

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The Greenleaf Murders by RJ Koreto

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 February, 2023

The sense of place is so strong in some crime novels that their setting – London, Paris, St Mary Mead – practically becomes one of the characters. In RJ Koreto’s new mystery, The Greenleaf Murders, a Manhattan Gilded Age mansion takes on that role. It’s…

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Damascus Station by David McCloskey

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 January, 2023

Fans of realistic spy fiction will enjoy David McCloskey’s debut thriller Damascus Station, newly available in paperback in the UK. I listened to the audio version narrated by Andrew B Wehrlen and found it an utterly engaging tale. The story, in the early days of…

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The Bone Records by Rich Zahradnik

By Vicki Weisfeld

25 January, 2023

What’s most fun about Rich Zahradnik’s new crime thriller set in Brooklyn is the peek into worlds most of us haven’t experienced first hand. It tells the story of Grigoriy ‘Grigg’ Orlov, a young man who washed out of the police academy when a racist…

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Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2022

By Vicki Weisfeld

28 December, 2022

Since I read several dozen crime thrillers each year, friends always ask for recommendations. Tempting though it is to reach for the latest shiny object, I keep going back to a few books that really made an impression, like the five below. And, while assembling…

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Blue Book by Tom Harley Campbell

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 December, 2022

In the middle-American city of Dayton, Ohio, retired homicide detective John Burke isn’t wildly happy about the reduced pace of his life, but in this quick-moving new thriller by Tom Harley Campbell, that is about to change. Unbeknownst to Burke, trouble – and a fascinating…

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The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 November, 2022

Taut. Twisty. Propulsive. You can trot out all the cliches regularly used to describe thriller fiction and use them with abandon for Paul Cleave’s new police procedural, The Pain Tourist. In Christchurch, New Zealand, a serial killer named Joe Middleton was caught but somehow escaped…

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Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

Crimeucopia – We'll Be Right Back – After This!

The Greenleaf Murders by RJ Koreto

Damascus Station by David McCloskey

The Bone Records by Rich Zahradnik

Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2022

Blue Book by Tom Harley Campbell

The Pain Tourist by Paul Cleave

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