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Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

By DeathBecomesHer

26 April, 2021

Any ‘best of’ list of creepiest love songs worth its salt is sure to include Every Breath You Take, the stalkerfest made famous by The Police back in 1983, when it reached number one in six countries including the US and the UK. With lines…

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Long Bright River by Liz Moore

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 April, 2021

Long Bright River came out in paperback in December 2020, but is receiving renewed attention because of the number of best-of-the-year lists it appears on. Apparently, Barack Obama called it one of his favourites. There are really three main characters in Liz Moore’s novel. The…

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The Embalmer by Alison Belsham

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2021

Life is full of tiny, inconsequential slights and disappointments. They pass by in the blink of an eye and are forgotten just as quickly – for most people, that is. A tiny minority take such things to heart and let them fester into something out…

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This Land is No Stranger by Sarah Hollister and Gil Reavill

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 April, 2021

Our continuing fascination with crime fiction from the Nordic regions has led to several non-Scandinavian authors setting their novels in Sweden, Norway, Iceland and even the Faroe Islands. However, just because you put your characters in Sweden doesn’t necessarily make your novel Nordic noir. Fortunately,…

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The Plastic Nightmare and While Love Lay Sleeping by Richard Neely

By Paul Burke

19 April, 2021

Like a lot of American pulp authors, Richard Neely started out a newspaperman. He then embarked on a successful career in advertising before turning to crime writing in his 50s. In 14 years he produced 15 novels. This volume contains his second and third books,…

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Murder on the Island by Daisy White

By Vicki Weisfeld

12 April, 2021

If you like to be in at the very beginning of a new cosy mystery series, then Murder on the Island can go on your list – it’s the first book in the Chloe Canton series. The story begins with some life-changing events for Chloe,…

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Silenced by Solveig Palsdottir

By crimefictionlover

9 April, 2021

Translated by Quentin Bates — Corylus Books was set up a year or two ago with the aim of publishing crime novels that might not normally make it into English translation, and Silenced by Solveig Palsdottir is the company’s third release, following Solveig’s earlier novel…

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How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff

By RoughJustice

8 April, 2021

How to Betray Your Country is the second book in a planned themed trilogy exploring the ways an individual spy might turn traitorous. It follows on from Beside the Syrian Sea, in which an English spy attempts to trade national secrets in order to free…

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Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

The Embalmer by Alison Belsham

This Land is No Stranger by Sarah Hollister and Gil Reavill

The Plastic Nightmare and While Love Lay Sleeping by Richard Neely

Murder on the Island by Daisy White

Silenced by Solveig Palsdottir

How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff

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