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A Perfect Family by Sarah Sheridan

By DeathBecomesHer

12 September, 2022

You don’t get a more dramatic start to a crime novel than the discovery of six bodies, hanging side by side in the conservatory of a fairly run-of-the-mill Buckinghamshire family home. And they are a family, three generations of the Bryants to be precise. Was…

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 September, 2022

The Cunninghams are having a little family get-together at Sky Lodge, a snowbound mountain retreat in Australia, the perfect setting for mulled wine and murder. If your first thought is that this is one of those stories where a group of people get snowed in…

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There Are No Happy Loves by Sergio Olguín

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 September, 2022

Translated by Miranda France — There Are No Happy Loves is the third crime thriller in a series by award-winning Argentinian writer Sergio Olguín, featuring the irrepressible and libidinous investigative reporter Verónica Rosenthal. It follows on from The Fragility of Bodies (2019) and The Foreign…

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All the Broken Girls by Linda Hurtado Bond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

5 September, 2022

Award-winning TV news anchor Linda Hurtado Bond returns with her fourth novel featuring a journalist as the main protagonist. This time, it’s Marisol ‘Mari’ Alvarez, a disgraced Cuban-American crime reporter who must stay one step ahead of a serial killer while also uncovering the truth…

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Fields of Fire by Ryan Steck

By Paul Burke

4 September, 2022

There’s a tonne of fireworks in Fields of Fire, making it an apt title from debut author Ryan Steck. This is a cuss-free action thriller set mostly in the wide open spaces of Montana but also flitting between California, Washington and Mexico. There’s political intrigue…

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1989 by Val McDermid

By DeathBecomesHer

2 September, 2022

The 1980s are having something of a renaissance right now thanks to TV series like The Newsreader and Stranger Things. Just ask Kate Bush, whose 1986 hit Running Up That Hill took on a new life after featuring in the latter show on Netflix. Val…

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Better The Blood by Michael Bennett

By RoughJustice

31 August, 2022

Better the Blood begins with a prologue set 150 years ago depicting a violent act of colonisation. Six soldiers are celebrating the capture and killing of a Maori chief by having their picture taken alongside his hanging corpse. The picture serves as inspiration for the…

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Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds

By Vicki Weisfeld

30 August, 2022

Edited by Kenneth Wishing & Chantelle Aimée Osman — In his lively introduction to Jewish Noir II, legendary New York crime fiction author Lawrence Block sums up every Jewish holiday in three sentences: “They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat!” While the last…

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A Perfect Family by Sarah Sheridan

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

There Are No Happy Loves by Sergio Olguín

All the Broken Girls by Linda Hurtado Bond

Fields of Fire by Ryan Steck

1989 by Val McDermid

Better The Blood by Michael Bennett

Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds

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