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Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 October, 2025

Morgan Hatch’s debut thriller, Gone to Ground, is like a pyramid of Southern California crime and rich in unscrupulous invention. The story takes place mostly in an impoverished area of the East San Fernando Valley and involves the full spectrum of people struggling to get…

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Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes

By Paul Burke

8 October, 2025

Location, location, location. Sometimes, one of the things we love about a crime novel is the unique landscape of the story. It isn’t easy making a place your own but the best authors manage to do it, creating characters synonymous with where they work, like…

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Clown Town by Mick Herron

By DeathBecomesHer

1 October, 2025

Fans of Mick Herron, and Slow Horses in particular, have been mightily spoiled these past few weeks. First came the arrival of Clown Town, book nine in the Slough House series, closely followed by the arrival on Apple TV+ of series five of the series…

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The Corpse with the Amber Neck by Cathy Ace

By Sharon Richardson

1 October, 2025

The Corpse with the Amber Neck is the 15th book in Cathy Ace’s globetrotting cosy mystery series featuring Cait Morgan, and this time our favourite Welsh Canadian crime solver is in Paris. Some people go there for the culture, history, cuisine and couture. Others go…

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Legacy by Chris Hammer

By DeathBecomesHer

28 September, 2025

Six years after we first encountered Aussie investigative journalist Martin Scarsden in Scrublands, he’s back in Legacy, the fourth book in the series – and what a book it is! As it opens, Martin is at home in Port Silver and about to launch his…

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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

By Erin Britton

24 September, 2025

Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…

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The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper

By Dave Bradley

22 September, 2025

The crime at the heart of The Creeping Hand Murder, from the You Are the Detective series, is the exact opposite of a locked-room mystery. The deed takes place in a drawing room full of people. Many characters had opportunity, means and motive, with the…

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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

By Erin Britton

18 September, 2025

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a twist-filled murder mystery that blends classic crime fiction tropes with a modern, interactive narrative structure. With a hefty dose of festive flair, Martin Edwards pays homage to Golden Age detective stories while simultaneously deconstructing them…

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Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes

Clown Town by Mick Herron

The Corpse with the Amber Neck by Cathy Ace

Legacy by Chris Hammer

The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

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