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On the Radar: It is time for stormy weather

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This fine week in mid-October, our news report brings you five books by women authors. We begin with Black Storms by Teresa Solana, new Spanish crime fiction in translation. You’re also in for some Irish, Canadian and American books, with themes that lean heavily into…
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House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

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Gabino Iglesias’s latest thriller leans quite heavily into horror, just like its Shirley Jackson Award-winning predecessor The Devil Takes You Home in 2022. This time, however, the story is noticeably less bleak, Iglesias replacing the hired killer protagonist of his previous novel with a group…
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Nordic Murders season 5 on Walter Presents

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Karin Lossow is back helping solve crimes in Usedom as Nordic Murders returns to Channel 4’s streaming service Walter Presents. While season four felt a little off-kilter with so much focus on the love life of police detective Ellen Norgaard (Rikke Lylloff), season five feels…
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The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood

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Trevor Wood gained a legion of followers with his Jimmy Mullen trilogy, which began with The Man on the Street. His homeless protagonist got readers thinking about the way society treats its poorest people and how their vulnerability places them at risk of crime and…
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Broiler by Eli Cranor

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The broiler is a breed of chicken favoured by the American poultry industry for its flesh. If you’re hatched a broiler, you’re dead meat, and the sense of fatalism hinted at in the title is something that will certainly cast its shadow across the narrative…
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The Infiltrator by TR Hendricks

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When the tropes of crime fiction become too much – the secrets, the deceit, the evasions, the jealousies – that’s when a no-holds-barred thriller like The Infiltrator by TR Hendricks makes a welcome cleanse. Its adventure-first approach scours your veins as you follow retired US…
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