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Nightingale and Co by Charlotte Printz

By Paul Burke

20 January, 2025

Translated by Marina Sofia — A new historical cosy crime set in Cold War West Germany is a welcome start to the new year, particularly as this is a period and place more commonly seen through the darker lens of espionage fiction. It’s 1961 and…

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Interview: Charlotte Printz

By crimefictionlover

7 January, 2025

Guten tag, crime fiction lovers – we’ve got a new writer we think you’d be interested to meet. Charlotte Printz is a German cosy crime author whose debut novel, Nightingale & Co, arrives this month in English for the first time from Corylus Books. Set…

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Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

7 May, 2024

Translated by Quentin Bates — Last year, Stella Blómkvist made their debut in English with Murder at the Residence and we discovered that the author’s identity is a mystery, even among the Icelandic writing community, which seems quite amazing. Now as second novel from this…

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Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

By DeathBecomesHer

31 January, 2024

Am I the only one who feels mighty old when a book set in 1968 is called historical crime fiction? It’s a label that’s been applied to Where We Lie, by Irish debut author Claire Coughlan and set in Dublin at the end of the…

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Dig Two Graves by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By Paul Burke

29 August, 2023

Once, when someone complained that Mickey Spillane had eight books in a top 10 chart, he replied along the lines that the reader should be thankful he didn’t write two more. It’s hard to overestimate Spillane’s popularity in the 1950s and 60s. He has sold…

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The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan

By RoughJustice

9 August, 2023

The Continental Affair tells the story of two strangers, initially adversaries, but eventually lovers, both trying to escape their pasts. It is set in the 1960s, and Algerians are rising up against their French colonial rulers. Henri used to work for the police force. It…

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White Fox by Owen Matthews

By RoughJustice

9 March, 2023

White Fox is the third novel to feature Russian KGB officer Alexander Vasin, a man much like Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther, in that he has had the bad luck to be born with a moral sense and independent streak while serving within a totalitarian regime….

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Blown by the Same Wind by John Straley

By crimefictionlover

15 December, 2022

John Straley is both a criminal investigator and an award-winning crime novelist. His home is Alaska, he clearly loves the place, and he was the state’s writer laureate from 2006 to 2008. His fine storytelling and literary skills are on full burn in Blown by…

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Nightingale and Co by Charlotte Printz

Interview: Charlotte Printz

Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

Dig Two Graves by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan

White Fox by Owen Matthews

Blown by the Same Wind by John Straley

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