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The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

By DeathBecomesHer

13 November, 2025

Two decades have passed since Armand Gamache joined the crime fiction legions. As the first novel, Still Life, celebrates its 20th anniversary he’s back in The Black Wolf. This is a book that shows author Louise Penny still has her finger firmly on the pulse…

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Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

By Erin Britton

11 November, 2025

FL Everett’s Murder at Mistletoe Manor is a snowbound murder mystery that manages to be genuinely festive and genuinely chilling. A closed-circle whodunnit, it pays homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other Golden Age mysteries, but it does so with a…

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Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 November, 2025

Victoria Goldman’s new mystery-thriller Little Secrets couldn’t be set in a place more likely to make the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up. We are in HMP Panbrook in Hertfordshire, a huge, old Victorian structure that has been converted into Panbrook…

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The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah

By Erin Britton

7 November, 2025

The New Year generally begins with fireworks rather than fatalities, but the stroke of midnight signals suspicion instead of celebration in Sophie Hannah’s The Last Death of the Year. The sixth novel chronicling the return of Hercule Poirot – which by necessity takes place before…

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Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan

By Paul Burke

5 November, 2025

Welcome to what has become the James Bond universe. If you think you’ve seen a lot of the characters over the years, brace yourself because it’s going to get more intense. Amazon is gearing up for the next movie and who knows a spin off…

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Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

By Erin Britton

4 November, 2025

This year’s festive addition to the British Library Crime Classics series is Susan Gilruth’s Death in Ambush, which was first published in 1952. It is a Christmas-set mystery, yes, but one less about seasonal cheer and more about the tensions, hypocrisies and secrets that lie…

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The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate

By Vicki Weisfeld

30 October, 2025

Right from the title you’ll know Merle Nygate’s new political thriller will be provocative. It echoes the notorious antisemitic conspiracy theory, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claimed to be a true account of Jewish plans to take over the world. This screed…

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Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 October, 2025

Word-lovers, rejoice! Susie Dent’s debut murder mystery, Guilty by Definition, thrusts a cold case right into the middle of a group of lexicographers, working in the Oxford offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary. The fictional organisation is no doubt a stand-in for the OED. The…

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The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

Murder at Mistletoe Manor by FL Everett

Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman

The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah

Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan

Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

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