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Murder on the Island by Daisy White

By Vicki Weisfeld

12 April, 2021

If you like to be in at the very beginning of a new cosy mystery series, then Murder on the Island can go on your list – it’s the first book in the Chloe Canton series. The story begins with some life-changing events for Chloe,…

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Silenced by Solveig Palsdottir

By crimefictionlover

9 April, 2021

Translated by Quentin Bates — Corylus Books was set up a year or two ago with the aim of publishing crime novels that might not normally make it into English translation, and Silenced by Solveig Palsdottir is the company’s third release, following Solveig’s earlier novel…

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How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff

By RoughJustice

8 April, 2021

How to Betray Your Country is the second book in a planned themed trilogy exploring the ways an individual spy might turn traitorous. It follows on from Beside the Syrian Sea, in which an English spy attempts to trade national secrets in order to free…

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Later by Stephen King

By RoughJustice

7 April, 2021

Once every few years, Stephen King publishes a paperback original through Hard Case Crime, such as Joyland and The Colorado Kid. He has written a number of thrillers recently as well, including the Mr Mercedes series. King, being King, these thrillers are at least horror…

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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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Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth

By Paul Burke

2 April, 2021

When Bad Penny Blues was published in 2009, it became a cult classic, the kind of novel other writers refer to as a landmark. If you’ve not yet discovered it this new edition, with an introduction by Greil Marcus and insightful afterword by the author,…

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Murder on the Island by Daisy White

Silenced by Solveig Palsdottir

How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff

Later by Stephen King

The Dirty South by John Connolly

A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen audiobook

Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth

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