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Minky Woodcock: The Girl Called Cthulhu by Cynthia von Buhler

9 July, 2025

We don’t review many graphic novels on Crime Fiction Lover, but I wish we did. The artistry and imagination on display in books like Minky Woodcock: The Girl Called Cthulhu provides us with plenty of reasons to. So, here’s the skinny… and there’s plenty of…

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The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 April, 2025

Second in this talented team’s genre mashup, The Railway Conspiracy builds on the characters so expertly introduced in last year’s The Murder of Mr Ma. Set in London in the mid-1920s, the series’ main character is Judge Dee Ren Jie, inspired by not only on…

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Dirty Little War by Dietrich Kalteis

By Sharon Richardson

21 March, 2025

There is money to be made during Prohibition in the United States, and Huckabee Waller wants in on the action. He is the central character of Dirty Little War, an epic tale about gangsters in Chicago during the 1920s from Canadian author Dietrich Kalteis. In…

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The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

By crimefictionlover

20 March, 2025

Belinda Bauer is a British crime author with a reputation for writing high quality mysteries driven by unique ideas. This is why her past novels Blacklands (2009), Rubbernecker (2013) and Snap (2018) won four major awards between them, with the latter longlisted for the Man…

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Queen of Diamonds by Beezy Marsh

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 January, 2025

This is the third in Beezy Marsh’s trilogy inspired by a real-life female shoplifting gang that operated in London in the first half of the 20th century. The first two books, Queen of Thieves and Queen of Clubs, dealt with the gang’s activities during their…

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The Murder of Mr Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 April, 2024

This light-hearted crime adventure is a book I’ve been looking forward to for some months for several good reasons. Although it is co-written with media executive John Shen Yen Nee, I was already a fan of SJ Rozan’s award-winning mysteries featuring New York City private…

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Razor Country by Nicholas Wagner

By Dave Bradley

2 April, 2024

Sometimes, a book takes you by surprise. In an age where cosy crime is having a resurgence and shop shelves creak with hybrid novels more romance than thriller, Razor Country comes along and punches you in the gut. This hardboiled collection of tales by author…

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The Pike Boys by Danny Cherry Jr

By Paul Burke

6 February, 2024

Meet the Pike Boys, heavy hitters in the New Orleans underworld. A step outside the law is the only way for dirt poor people to break out of poverty and make it in 1920s America – and when it comes to setting, what could be…

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Minky Woodcock: The Girl Called Cthulhu by Cynthia von Buhler

The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

Dirty Little War by Dietrich Kalteis

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

Queen of Diamonds by Beezy Marsh

The Murder of Mr Ma by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

Razor Country by Nicholas Wagner

The Pike Boys by Danny Cherry Jr

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