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The Alone Time by Elle Marr

By DeathBecomesHer

30 April, 2024

Plane crashes make fertile ground for crime fiction authors. The drama! The unpredictability! One of my favourites is Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton – although strictly speaking that was a hot air balloon, rather than an aircraft. It came out seven years ago and…

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A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce

By DeathBecomesHer

18 April, 2024

Harriet Tyce is an author that’s new to me, but there had been quite a buzz about this book and it made the CFL list of Most Wanted Books for 2024 so I had high hopes. After bursting into the scene with her best-selling debut…

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Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

By Sharon Richardson

15 April, 2024

Pay Dirt is the 22nd book in the VI Warshawski series by veteran US crime author Sara Paretsky. Back in the 1980s, female characters in crime novels tended to be vamps or victims, according to the author, so at that time a lead character like…

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Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

12 April, 2024

Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia — Black Wolf follows on from Spanish author Juan Gómez-Jurado’s highly rated Red Queen, which is set in Madrid and forms the basis of the Amazon Prime series launched earlier this year. Comparisons have been made with Stieg…

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The Murder of Mr Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 April, 2024

This light-hearted crime adventure is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some months for several good reasons. Although it is co-written with media executive John Shen Yen Nee, I was already a fan of SJ Rozan’s award-winning mysteries featuring New York City private…

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The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

By DeathBecomesHer

4 April, 2024

Meet Dr Olivia Winter. She’s a forensic psychologist and the protagonist in The Mind of a Murderer, first in a new series by Michael Wood. Throughout her career, Olivia has travelled the world to meet serial killers, to talk to them and endeavour to get…

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The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

4 April, 2024

A new Stuart Turton novel is always met with great anticipation and high expectations. The author, who frequently draws inspiration from Golden Age crime fiction, is undoubtedly skilled at crafting original mysteries. In his latest high-concept thriller he creates an entirely fictitious and post-apocalyptic setting…

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The Sulphur Springs Cure by Jeffrey Round

By DeathBecomesHer

31 March, 2024

Past and present collide in Jeffrey Round’s engaging The Sulphur Springs Cure, which jumps back and forth between 2009 and 1939 as our central character, Violet McAdams recalls what happened in Sulphur Springs in the Dundas Valley in Ontario, Canada, in the last summer before…

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The Alone Time by Elle Marr

A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce

Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado

The Murder of Mr Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

The Sulphur Springs Cure by Jeffrey Round

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