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Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

By Erin Britton

1 April, 2025

Blazing eyes? Luminous muzzle? Not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen? No, that would be another hound altogether. The shaggy dog story keeping Torben Helle awake at night concerns Mortimer, an Irish wolfhound that had long been the closest companion of Dame…

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The Get Off by Christa Faust

By RoughJustice

31 March, 2025

From New York originally, Christa Faust has worked as a model, a professional dominatrix and as an award-winning writer of original pulp and tie-in fiction. She possesses an unapologetic attitude and an encyclopaedic knowledge of film noir. Her novels featuring Angel Dare are modern noir…

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White King by Juan Gómez-Jurado

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 March, 2025

Translated by Nick Caistor — White King concludes Spanish crime author Juan Gómez-Jurado’s the popular trilogy featuring Antonia Scott, which was adapted for television in Amazon’s Red Queen series last year. Is it a goodbye the brilliant but asocial investigator and her witty sidekick, Jon…

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Down and Out in the River City by Wm Stage

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 March, 2025

This third crime thriller by Wm Stage is a refreshing change of pace in both setting and characters, with a strong feel of gritty reality. Contemporary society’s schisms and Americans’ careless assumptions and prejudices are on full display in this well-paced thriller, which puts St…

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Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

By Paul Burke

25 March, 2025

French author Johana Gustawsson and her Norwegian counterpart Thomas Enger are each formidable and successful in their own right. Now they’ve joined forces for a brand new crime fiction series set in Norway. It features a psychologist with specialist skills working for the Oslo police…

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Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

By RoughJustice

24 March, 2025

Friends Helping Friends is the story of two young men and one slightly older woman in present day Denver, Colorado. At the beginning of the story the two men, Bunny Simpson and Jerry LeClair know each other, and are indeed friends. Neither of them know…

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Dirty Little War by Dietrich Kalteis

By Sharon Richardson

21 March, 2025

There is money to be made during Prohibition in the United States, and Huckabee Waller wants in on the action. He is the central character of Dirty Little War, an epic tale about gangsters in Chicago during the 1920s from Canadian author Dietrich Kalteis. In…

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Midnight Streets by Phil Lecomber

By RoughJustice

20 March, 2025

From the title to the evocative cover showing a man in a trench coat and fedora, everything about Phil Lecomber’s second novel is designed to suggest we are stepping into classic detective fiction. However, the author has swapped the blinding glaze of Raymond Chandler’s LA…

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Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

The Get Off by Christa Faust

White King by Juan Gómez-Jurado

Down and Out in the River City by Wm Stage

Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

Dirty Little War by Dietrich Kalteis

Midnight Streets by Phil Lecomber

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