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The Trap by Ava Glass

By Paul Burke

26 July, 2024

It’s great to see female protagonists front and centre in modern spy thrillers and British agent Emma Makepeace is a case in point. First appearing in The Chase last year, she literally hit the ground running while dodging bullets as she fought to keep herself…

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I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay

By Sharon Richardson

24 July, 2024

Bestselling Canadian author Linwood Barclay often writes about contemporary issues, exploring the things that trouble us through crime fiction. For example, in Look Both Ways he concocted a plot about self-driving cars, and in Find You First we meet a tech billionaire who has everything…

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Dead Fall by AK Turner

By DeathBecomesHer

17 July, 2024

It’s no surprise that the majority of crime fiction books have a dead person in them – but not many feature a protagonist who has a special affinity with the recently deceased. Step forward Cassie Raven, the star of her own series of which Dead…

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The Missing Family by Tim Weaver

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 July, 2024

The Missing Family is the latest in British author Tim Weaver’s popular series of thrillers featuring missing-persons investigator David Raker. Here, Weaver presents an impossible crime, the unexpected tentacles of which stretch clear across the Atlantic and the North American continent. Sarah Fowler hires Raker…

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Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary

By DeathBecomesHer

7 July, 2024

Since bringing her award-winning police procedural series featuring DI Marnie Rome to an end, English author Sarah Hilary has turned her attention to writing standalone works, like last year’s Black Thorn which won a five star review on this site. This is a writer who…

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The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

By Sharon Richardson

25 June, 2024

Last year Mark Billingham introduced us to the unpredictable Detective Sergeant Declan Miller in The Last Dance, a book that takes a different tone to the author’s Thorne novels. The Wrong Hands continues Declan’s story along with the mix of genres seen in the first…

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Don't Let The Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

By RoughJustice

21 June, 2024

As a music lover, it’s tempting to say that Addison McKellar deserves everything that’s coming to her for attending a Hootie and the Blowfish concert. Still, I must remember I’m here to review books and not their character’s music choices, no matter how dubious. Addison…

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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

By DeathBecomesHer

5 June, 2024

The world of crime fiction is a broad church, featuring everything from snooping grannies in sleepy rural hamlets to blood spattered serial killers, and everything in between. At the darkest end of that spectrum comes Chris Carter, whose Robert Hunter series is definitely not for…

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The Trap by Ava Glass

I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay

Dead Fall by AK Turner

The Missing Family by Tim Weaver

Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary

The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

Don't Let The Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

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