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Long Bright River by Liz Moore

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 April, 2021

Long Bright River came out in paperback in December 2020, but is receiving renewed attention because of the number of best-of-the-year lists it appears on. Apparently, Barack Obama called it one of his favourites. There are really three main characters in Liz Moore’s novel. The…

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The Embalmer by Alison Belsham

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2021

Life is full of tiny, inconsequential slights and disappointments. They pass by in the blink of an eye and are forgotten just as quickly – for most people, that is. A tiny minority take such things to heart and let them fester into something out…

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This Land is No Stranger by Sarah Hollister and Gil Reavill

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 April, 2021

Our continuing fascination with crime fiction from the Nordic regions has led to several non-Scandinavian authors setting their novels in Sweden, Norway, Iceland and even the Faroe Islands. However, just because you put your characters in Sweden doesn’t necessarily make your novel Nordic noir. Fortunately,…

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The Dirty South by John Connolly

By Paul Burke

6 April, 2021

The 18th book in John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series, The Dirty South is actually a step back in time to the aftermath of the brutal murder of Parker’s wife, Susan, and daughter, Jennifer, 20 years earlier. It doesn’t go all the way back to the…

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A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 April, 2021

Narrated by Gerry O’Brien — A Galway Epiphany is the 17th novel in award-winning Irish author Ken Bruen’s long-running series involving former Garda detective Jack Taylor. Now a private investigator, he has had a haphazard career since being thrown off the force for excessive drinking…

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Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

5 April, 2021

Translated by Sam Malissa — If you ever find yourself on a train in Japan it’s best you forget the premise of Kotaro Isaka’s latest crime fiction novel to appear in translation. In Bullet Train there are no less than five assassins on a high-speed…

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Red Widow by Alma Katsu

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 April, 2021

Former officer of both the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency in the US, Alma Katsu takes you right into that world of partial information, hidden agendas, latent violence and self-interested double-dealing with her first spy thriller, Red Widow. Lyndsey Duncan is a CIA…

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The Water Rituals by Eva Garcia Saenz

By RoughJustice

31 March, 2021

Translated by Nick Caistor — In August 2020, we reviewed the first novel in Eva Garcia Saenz’s White City trilogy, The Silence of the White City. Set in Vitoria, in Spain, it was about the reopening of a historic serial killer case. Now, criminal profiler…

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Long Bright River by Liz Moore

The Embalmer by Alison Belsham

This Land is No Stranger by Sarah Hollister and Gil Reavill

The Dirty South by John Connolly

A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen audiobook

Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Red Widow by Alma Katsu

The Water Rituals by Eva Garcia Saenz

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