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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 November, 2020

Translated by Quentin Bates — With her new standalone novel, Betrayal, Icelandic crime author Lilja Sigurdardottir returns to themes such as misogyny and abuse. What’s new is that the backdrop is not the world of drug trafficking as it was in books like Snare and…

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The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

16 November, 2020

When we interviewed Elizabeth Hand way back in 2013, the multi-talented author described her crime fiction character Cass Neary as being in a “…self-inflicted emotional lockdown”. It’s an apt phrase with the fourth book in the series arriving in the middle of a pandemic and…

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The Forger and the Thief by Kirsten McKenzie

By nagaisayonara

13 November, 2020

Set in Florence, Italy in the lead up the 1966 floods, The Forger and the Thief by Kirsten McKenzie sees five strangers in the Tuscan city, each loosely connected to an expert forger. World War II ended two decades ago, but it still seems fresh…

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One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 November, 2020

In Tara Laskowski’s award-winning suspense novel One Night Gone, two women who have never met and never will meet, women of different ages with seemingly nothing in common, have unexpected and consequential connections after all. At the end of the summer of 1986, a teenager…

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The Sentinel by Lee and Andrew Child

By RoughJustice

8 November, 2020

Lee Child’s decision to share writing duties with his younger brother Andrew could have been a big risk. Jack Reacher is an established favourite in the world of crime fiction, having appeared in 24 previous books as well as a feature film starring Tom Cruise….

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The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

4 November, 2020

Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller has featured in six books in his own right and made guest appearances in other Michael Connelly novels – most notably the Harry Bosch series (Haller and Bosch are half brothers). But what makes The Law of Innocence so different from…

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All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

By Catherine Turnbull

3 November, 2020

Like this book’s author, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is revisiting Paris – a place that haunts him with shadows of the past – from his home near Montréal in Canada. He’s in the City of Light with his wife Reine-Marie, son and daughter, and their spouses…

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Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 October, 2020

Forecasts in the States are for a snowy winter, and if you want to gear up for the cold, you couldn’t do better than reading Sue Henry’s first Alaska mystery. Whatever the weather throws at the rest of us, compared to people who race the…

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Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir

The Book of Lamps and Banners by Elizabeth Hand

The Forger and the Thief by Kirsten McKenzie

One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

The Sentinel by Lee and Andrew Child

The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly

All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

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