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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

By Paul Burke

20 July, 2022

Chick-lit cannibalism is how Chelsea G Summers describes her new dramedy thriller – and that gives you a flavour of it, the novel is a tongue-in-cheek fable. A niche sub-genre maybe, but it’s wicked funny if you have the stomach for it. Hell hath no…

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Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2022

Maine-based author Elizabeth Hand writes widely across the crime fiction and dark fantasy genres. With her crime novels we’ve grown used to cold climate settings, and the Cass Neary series has taken readers from New England to Iceland, across the UK and over to Sweden….

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The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi

By Paul Burke

14 July, 2022

Translated by Katherine Gregor — Hot on the heels of The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler comes a very different but equally chilling serial killer thriller from Italian maestro Donato Carrisi. It’s a decade since his debut, The Whisperer, which terrified readers across the continent….

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Architect of Courage by Victoria Weisfeld

By DeathBecomesHer

13 July, 2022

Over the years, several Crime Fiction Lover contributors have gone on to write their own additions to the genre. It proves that the passion for crime fiction cuts across readers, reviewers and writers. Latest in that list is Victoria Weisfeld, an accomplished short story writer…

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Jacked: An Anthology of Crime Fiction

By Vicki Weisfeld

12 July, 2022

Edited by Vern Smith — A crime fiction short story has to accomplish a lot in a compressed space. It has to describe the crime involved in enough detail to make sense to readers, it has to create believable characters whose fates you care about…

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Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles

By Erin Britton

8 July, 2022

In Murder Before Evensong, Richard Coles’ debut cosy mystery, Canon Daniel Clement joins the ranks of crime-fighting clergy alongside such literary legends as Father Brown, Reverend Sidney Chambers and Brother Cadfael. As the Rector of Champton St Mary, a bucolic English parish still supported by…

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Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 July, 2022

The popular Boston Police Department duo detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles return in their 13th crime thriller, Listen to Me. It’s been five years since the previous novel in the series, I Know a Secret. There was also a TV series based…

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Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

By Paul Burke

7 July, 2022

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood –– Penguin’s new translation of Seichō Matsumoto‘s classic Tokyo Express is both modern and respectful of the original Japanese text from 1958, with the action taking place a little earlier in 1957. It’s a book you can immerse yourself in –…

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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi

Architect of Courage by Victoria Weisfeld

Jacked: An Anthology of Crime Fiction

Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles

Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen

Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

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