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Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

By Erin Britton

11 December, 2023

Step into a world where tinsel and crime intertwine as the festive season takes a mysterious and sometimes murderous turn in Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries. The fifth Christmassy collection from Martin Edwards and the British Library, it includes 15 short crime…

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Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin

By Erin Britton

6 December, 2023

Travel back in time to the Golden Age of Murder this Christmas with Joan Coggin’s fiendishly humorous Who Killed the Curate? Originally published in 1944 and set in 1937, it introduces the scatterbrained and remarkably good-natured Lady Lupin Lorimer Hastings, an unlikely amateur sleuth who…

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The Corpse with the Opal Fingers by Cathy Ace

By Sharon Richardson

29 November, 2023

The Corpse with the Opal Fingers is the 13th book in the Cait Morgan series by Cathy Ace. This series features a globe-trotting duo, Welsh-Canadian professor of criminal psychology, Cait Morgan and her husband, Bud Anderson who is a retired cop. These books are traditional…

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Best crime novel in translation of 2023 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

28 November, 2023

When we first started Crime Fiction Lover in 2011, Scandinavian crime fiction was all the rage and we dived in reading and celebrating not just Nordic noir but translated mysteries in general. It’s the perfect way to explore the world and expose yourself to different…

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The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead

By Paul Burke

11 October, 2023

Tom Mead’s debut, Death and the Conjuror, introduced us to amateur sleuth Joseph Spector. It landed with a splash, readers taken with the author’s ingenious double locked-room murder mystery, which played well on one of the oldest formats in the genre. The Murder Wheel is…

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Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass

By Paul Burke

11 October, 2023

We seem to be blessed with a burgeoning historical crime fiction scene in Britain at the moment and Leonora Nattrass is one of the most impressive newcomers. Her debut Black Drop struck a chord with readers and critics alike in 2021, which was followed by…

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On the Radar: A dead author's story

By crimefictionlover

29 September, 2023

Yes, it’s true, we are too close to our subject, but we do love it when mysteries themselves entwine authors, manuscripts, plot lines and other literary elements so that crime fiction begets crime fiction begets crime fiction… and so on. Anthony Horowitz is a master…

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The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

By Paul Burke

26 September, 2023

Peter Swanson has written a criminous Christmas tale? His twisted, unsettling mysteries such as The Kind Worth Killing and The Kind Worth Saving don’t bend towards sentimentality or good will for that matter. But then this novella is for people who aren’t wedded to the…

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Who Killed Father Christmas? and Other Seasonal Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin

The Corpse with the Opal Fingers by Cathy Ace

Best crime novel in translation of 2023 shortlist

The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead

Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass

On the Radar: A dead author's story

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

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