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The Narrator by KL Slater

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 October, 2022

Narrated by Clare Corbett and Cristin Atherton — This new crime thriller by KL Slater makes sly metafiction use of the audio medium as its two narrators read the story of Philippa Roberts. Roberts in turn is the best-selling author of nine novels about police…

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The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

10 October, 2022

Translated by Robert Bononno — With 12 million books sold worldwide, Swiss author Joël Dicker is a global success and one of the most popular authors in the French-speaking world. His road to fame began in 2010 when he was awarded the Geneva Writers’ Prize…

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Hold by Amy S Peele

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 October, 2022

Hold, the new medical thriller by Amy S Peele is a crime novel that takes place in the interesting and high-stakes world of transplant medicine, which in real-life often involves harrowing drama. The one-word titles of the two previous books in the series, Cut and…

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Sweet Dreams by Anders Roslund

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 October, 2022

Swedish crime writer Anders Roslund returns with Detective Ewert Grens for the 10th instalment of his gritty crime series set in Stockholm. Grens, now 65, is as depressed and gloomy as ever, and the psychological scars of years of police work are beginning to show….

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Truth is a Flightless Bird by Akbar Hussain

By Paul Burke

5 October, 2022

We still don’t see much authentic African crime fiction in Britain or America, less still from Kenya, so this promising debut is to be welcomed for helping to pave the way. Truth is a Flightless Bird is an intriguing mystery about the drugs trade and…

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Green Monsters by Nicky Shearsby

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 October, 2022

In Nicky Shearsby’s new psychological thriller Green Monsters first-person narrator Stacey Adams makes no secret of her hatred for her married older sister, Emma. Emma is a successful businesswoman, lives in a huge house with dishy husband Jason and a toddler daughter, has a designer…

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Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 October, 2022

British author Guy Morpuss was a barrister and QC, and saw some unusual cases during his 30-year legal career, but certainly none so strange as the one he crafts in Black Lake Manor. His second novel after Five Minds, it’s a dark, complex mystery, set…

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Five Moves of Doom by AJ Devlin

By crimefictionlover

30 September, 2022

Five Moves of Doom is the kind of novel we like to point to when we talk about independent publishing and how it feeds vibrant new material into the crime fiction scene. I’m not sure any mainstream publishers would dare touch a book where the…

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The Narrator by KL Slater

The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker

Hold by Amy S Peele

Sweet Dreams by Anders Roslund

Truth is a Flightless Bird by Akbar Hussain

Green Monsters by Nicky Shearsby

Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

Five Moves of Doom by AJ Devlin

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