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Writing the Murder edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst

By Paul Burke

24 September, 2024

Ever wanted to write crime fiction or at least to understand how good crime fiction works? Perhaps explore the reasons why we love it so much? Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction aims to provide insight into the art of the murder mystery…

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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

By Erin Britton

23 September, 2024

While the intrepid members of the Thursday Murder Club are presumably busy with their investigations (and forthcoming Netflix film), Richard Osman introduces an eclectic new team of sleuths in the aptly named We Solve Murders. The spread of ages might be quite different this time…

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Ocean Drive by Sam Wiebe

By Sharon Richardson

17 September, 2024

Canadian author Sam Wiebe is a master of gritty noir, and Ocean Drive hit the bestsellers list in British Columbia before it launched in Canada earlier this year. This will be no surprise to anyone who’s read the Dave Wakeland series. Ocean Drive is a…

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The Alaska Sanders Affair by Joël Dicker

By Vicki Weisfeld

16 September, 2024

Translated by Robert Bonnono — There’s one feature of Swiss thriller author Joël Dicker’s new book, The Alaska Sanders Affair, that everyone can agree on: it’s very long. 532 pages in the version I read. After that, opinions are likely to differ. The story itself,…

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Living is a Problem by Doug Johnstone

By Sharon Richardson

13 September, 2024

In the sixth book in this popular series by Doug Johnstone, the Skelf women hope to make a fresh start after the trauma of the previous book, The Opposite of Lonely. In Living is a Problem, they want a positive future, but perhaps not everyone…

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Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

By Sharon Richardson

11 September, 2024

Guide Me Home is the third and final book in Attica Locke’s Highway 59 trilogy about Darren Mathews, a Texas Ranger who is black. We first met Darren in Bluebird, Bluebird in 2017, which went on to win Edgar and CWA Steel Dagger awards. But…

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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

By Paul Burke

10 September, 2024

Even today, Agatha Christie still outsells nearly all other crime fiction writers and our fascination with her clever, quiet amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple, is evergreen. That is obvious from the continuing popularity of the TV series, even as the batten is handed between actors…

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Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald

By Erin Britton

4 September, 2024

Bed, breakfast and… butchery? It’s not exactly what Ally McKinley had in mind when she decamped from Edinburgh to run a guesthouse in the picturesque village of Locharran in the Scottish Highlands, but she soon discovers that murder and the solving thereof offer a great…

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Writing the Murder edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Ocean Drive by Sam Wiebe

The Alaska Sanders Affair by Joël Dicker

Living is a Problem by Doug Johnstone

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald

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