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The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

8 July, 2025

Olivia Dumont is a ghostwriter, but a public spat with another writer has left her career in ruins. Her luck changes when acclaimed horror author Vincent Taylor requests Olivia to ghostwrite his memoirs. This isn’t just any life story, though. Vincent’s siblings were murdered in…

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Whistle by Linwood Barclay

By Sharon Richardson

2 July, 2025

With the publication of Whistle, Canadian author Linwood Barclay has ventured into the horror genre. However, his supernatural thriller also has a police procedural storyline that crime fiction lovers might. If you follow Barclay on X or BlueSky, you may have seen photos of the…

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The Bonnie Dead by Andrew Raymond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2025

Glasgow author Andrew Raymond is well-known for his political and spy thrillers, but The Bonnie Dead is his first venture into the crime genre – a police procedural set in his home city. You’ll find it has all the things we love about Tartan noir…

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Shatter Creek by Rod Reynolds

By Paul Burke

25 June, 2025

You’d be tempted to believe British author Rod Reynolds was American, with five of his six novels set in the US, but he’s actually a Brit with a good feel for Americana. In Shatter Creek, Hampstead County Detective Sergeant Casey Wray returns after Black Reed…

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The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry

By DeathBecomesHer

24 June, 2025

Crime fiction is full of well-used tropes, from alcoholic detectives to silver sleuths. Even the titles can get into a rut – remember all the ‘The Girl…’ books? On the face of it, Jane Corry‘s The Stranger in Room Six ticks many of the boxes…

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Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

By crimefictionlover

21 June, 2025

When it comes to metafiction in the crime genre, nobody does it better than Anthony Horowitz. His Daniel Hawthorne detective novels are brilliant, and his Magpie Murders stories have been big hit in print and on screen thanks to the BBC series. Marble Hall Murders…

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Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

By Erin Britton

20 June, 2025

It’s murder ahoy as the Marlow Murder Club take to the Thames and pit wits against another nefarious killer in Murder on the Marlow Belle. Robert Thorogood’s cosy mysteries – which have inspired a television series starring Samantha Bond – continue to go from strength…

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Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

17 June, 2025

Translated by Nicholas Glastonbury — It’s not often we come across Turkish crime fiction, much less examples influenced by Nabokov and Highsmith, but Yiğit Karaahmet has produced an original, atmospheric debut with LGBTQ+ themes. Summerhouse is set on Büyükada, an island just off Istanbul, and…

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The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

Whistle by Linwood Barclay

The Bonnie Dead by Andrew Raymond

Shatter Creek by Rod Reynolds

The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry

Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood

Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet

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