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The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani

By DeathBecomesHer

27 June, 2026

The Hollow Boys is a book that lives under a perpetual cloud. From the get go, this compelling example of Southern gothic is a darkly depressing read – but one that I found increasingly hard to let out of my clenched fingers. Forget cosy crime…

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Crime Scenes by Joseph S Walker

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 June, 2026

We don’t often review short story collections here at Crime Fiction Lover, but this collection of 20 by award-winning American story writer and president of the Short Mystery Fiction Society Joseph S Walker is well worth diving into. For all those times when you’re waiting…

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Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible

By Vicki Weisfeld

25 June, 2026

This new crime novel by Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, native Kennedy Weible is one of those books that makes me wish I took notes. Dirty Myrtle just has much going on! So many characters! It might have been easier to keep them straight if I…

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Blood River Witch by TJ Martinson

By RoughJustice

24 June, 2026

Alicia Moore is a deputy sheriff in a small, socially conservative, deeply religious town in rural Kentucky. She’s married to Bill and has a son, Bart, in the seventh grade. She’s also the daughter of a well-respected former sheriff of the town. In short, she’s…

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The Devil is Waiting by Gregory W Beaubien

By Vicki Weisfeld

24 June, 2026

If you’re a devotee of noir fiction, you’ll definitely find it in Gregory W Beaubien’s new crime thriller, The Devil is Waiting. Set in Chicago mainly in the 1970s and 1990s, his story eventually tracks five generations of men in one family who, in their…

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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 June, 2026

Translated by Frances Riddle — Claudia Piñeiro is one of Argentina’s most translated authors and her novel Elena Knows was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and developed into a Netflix film. In Cathedrals, Piñeiro delivers a psychological family crime novel that focuses…

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The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen

By RoughJustice

22 June, 2026

A humorous slang term for an LGTBQ+ person who is openly queer but chronically messy, chaotic, socially awkward or disastrously unlucky in life or love. That’s the definition I found online for ‘disaster gay’, and it’s certainly true of the four main protagonists in Rosen’s…

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The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond

By DeathBecomesHer

17 June, 2026

Scottish authors have ploughed a rich crime fiction furrow over the years, with the likes of William McIlvanney, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Chris Brookmyre taking up the Tartan noir cudgel. Andrew Raymond is another one on that list with his DCI John Lomond books,…

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The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani

Crime Scenes by Joseph S Walker

Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible

Blood River Witch by TJ Martinson

The Devil is Waiting by Gregory W Beaubien

Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen

The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond

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