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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

By Erin Britton

24 September, 2025

Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…

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Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale

By crimefictionlover

11 September, 2025

Like Kiev and Prague, Moscow’s history stretches deep into the medieval period. At its centre is the Kremlin. Originally a fortress, it has protected not just Russia’s ruling elite but also some of its great institutions and churches over the centuries. And like so many…

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The Silent Ones by Anna McPartlin

By DeathBecomesHer

9 September, 2025

1980 was a mere 45 years ago but my, how things have changed! It was a time without tech – no mobile phones or internet. And over in Ireland, women were still expected to give up their jobs once they got married, while unmarried mothers…

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Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo

By Erin Britton

8 September, 2025

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk — Murder at the Black Cat Cafe serves up two sinisterly cerebral cases cracked by Kosuke Kindaichi, Seishi Yokomizo’s sublime series detective. While the motive, means and opportunity differ quite considerably, the nefariousness at the heart of both novellas is firmly…

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Doll Parts by Penny Zang

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

4 September, 2025

Penny Zang’s atmospheric and claustrophobic debut novel has it all: suspicious deaths, a fractured female friendship and a Sylvia Plath suicide club set in the angsty, grunge-driven 90s. So let’s dive in… Twenty years after a mysterious rift ended their friendship, Nikki commits suicide, and…

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Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

By DeathBecomesHer

2 September, 2025

Anyone who has ever been to the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough will be familiar with its Castle, Spa, headland and sandy beaches. And anyone who is unfamiliar with the place will feel a little more at home after reading Deadly Dancing at the Seaview…

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The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead

By Paul Burke

28 August, 2025

The influence of Golden Age mysteries on modern crime fiction is huge. Readers simply cannot get enough of the closed-circle murder mystery and the locked-room puzzle – archetypes handed down from Agatha Christie and John Dixon Carr through generations of writers to the new kids…

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The Cut Throat Trial by SJ Fleet

By DeathBecomesHer

26 August, 2025

Best known as The Secret Barrister – an author with several non-fiction books under their belt – the shadowy SJ Fleet has finally arrived on the crime fiction scene with their debut The Cut Throat Trial. It’s a compelling mix of Rumpole of the Bailey…

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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale

The Silent Ones by Anna McPartlin

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo

Doll Parts by Penny Zang

Deadly Dancing at the Seaview Hotel by Glenda Young

The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead

The Cut Throat Trial by SJ Fleet

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