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Murder at Maybridge Castle by Ada Moncrieff

By Erin Britton

18 December, 2023

Daphne King, trailblazing crime reporter and fledgling amateur sleuth, returns to tackle more Christmas chaos in Ada Moncrieff’s Murder at Maybridge Castle. It’s December 1936 and Charles Howton, black sheep of playwright Veronica Howton’s family, has invited Daphne and Veronica to spend a pre-Christmas weekend…

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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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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023: The Winners

By crimefictionlover

7 December, 2023

A drum roll please. Or maybe some moody midnight saxophone would be more fitting, given our genre. Whatever the tune, whatever the syncopation, the moment has come to unveil the winners of the 2023 Crime Fiction Lover Awards. Go ahead and scroll down to feast…

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Best crime author of 2023 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

1 December, 2023

As crime fiction lovers, we all have different tastes. Cosy crime fiction has been resurgent in 2023 – no surprise given the chaos going on around the world, with the cost of living crisis, climate change and too many wars happening. We can escape from…

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Best debut crime novel of 2023 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

22 November, 2023

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 are underway and as a reader you’re invited to vote on which books will win the accolades this year. Here we look at the six novels nominated by readers for our Best Debut shortlist. For all the shortlists, and…

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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 – vote for your winners

By crimefictionlover

9 November, 2023

For the third year in a row, we’re running the Crime Fiction Lover Awards, where readers get to nominate and vote on the winners. Based on the nominations we received, below we reveal the shortlists for 2023. It’s time to vote! We’d like to say…

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Big Island, LA by Boston Teran

By RoughJustice

12 October, 2023

Big Island, LA connects the dots between a heist gone wrong at a police shooting range and corporate greed and political corruption, leaving a former combat marine and an agoraphobic crime reporter to sort out the mystery. It’s a new crime novel from Boston Teran…

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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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Murder at Maybridge Castle by Ada Moncrieff

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

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023: The Winners

Best crime author of 2023 shortlist

Best debut crime novel of 2023 shortlist

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 – vote for your winners

Big Island, LA by Boston Teran

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

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