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Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason

By Vicki Weisfeld

16 December, 2025

A fun read for the snowy season is former detective constable Emma Mason’s debut mystery, Murder Most Haunted. When self-effacing DS Midge McGowan retires from her years with the Thames Valley Police property office, she receives an unexpected parting gift: a haunted Christmas weekend at…

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Death in High Heels by Christianna Brand

By Erin Britton

15 December, 2025

A debut back in 1941, Christianna Brand’s Death in High Heels opens with the light, breezy tone of a comedy set in the world of retail fashion. Something akin to Are You Being Served? or Mr Selfridge perhaps. However, beneath its witty surface lies a…

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Survive the Christmas Drive by Krystal Powers

By Erin Britton

12 December, 2025

Krystal Powers’s Survive the Christmas Drive is a holiday-set thriller built on a simple but effective premise: a young couple on a long holiday drive, a brutal Midwestern blizzard and a group of escaped killers somewhere out on the same icy roads. It’s a self-contained,…

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My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi

By Erin Britton

11 December, 2025

Translated by Louise Heal Kawai — Masateru Konishi’s My Grandfather, the Master Detective arrives in English translation with a lot of buzz: it’s a Japanese bestseller, winner of the This Mystery is Amazing! prize and positioned as a gentle, puzzle-focused crime novel in the vein…

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The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur Indridason

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 December, 2025

Translated by Philip Roughton — The topography, geography and meteorology of Iceland are never far out of mind in Arnaldur Indridason’s crime stories. His most recent to be published in English, The Quiet Mother, is a police procedural. It’s the third novel featuring Indridason’s detective,…

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Silent Bones by Val McDermid

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 December, 2025

Opening one of Val McDermid’s police procedurals – especially those featuring Police Scotland’s Karen Pirie and her dedicated team in the Historic Cases Unit – is like being driven to a rewarding destination in a luxury limo. Everything works flawlessly, with no plot holes or…

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If the Owl Calls by Sharon White

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

8 December, 2025

American author Sharon White is known for her poetry, short stories and non fiction books, which have a calm, philosophical feel to them. She’s written one other novel but enters the crime fiction fray with If the Owl Calls by Night. Set in Norway in…

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Come and Get Her by Bruce Conord

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 December, 2025

When you’re in the mood for a full-throttle adventure, beginning to end, consider the debut suspense thriller Come and Get her by Bruce Conord. I raced through the pages to find out what deadly hazard hero Jesse Arroyo would face next and whether he’d finally…

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Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason

Survive the Christmas Drive by Krystal Powers

My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi

The Quiet Mother by Arnaldur Indridason

Silent Bones by Val McDermid

If the Owl Calls by Sharon White

Come and Get Her by Bruce Conord

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