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The Fifteenth Man by William Cook

By Chris Connor
12 October, 2026
Sometimes the setting is the most important part of a good thriller. When it comes to Cold War and World War II-set stories, Berlin is often centre stage; the divided city, the wall, the checkpoints, the guns, the Stasi and much more make it ripe…
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Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
7 May, 2026
Astronaut! is a satirical police procedural and coming-of-age story set in the final months of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship in 1989 Romania. At the centre of the story are Constantin, a weary police detective, and Lia, a rebellious schoolgirl. Both have to navigate their daily lives…
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Survive the Christmas Drive by Krystal Powers

By Erin Britton
12 December, 2025
Krystal Powers’s Survive the Christmas Drive is a holiday-set thriller built on a simple but effective premise: a young couple on a long holiday drive, a brutal Midwestern blizzard and a group of escaped killers somewhere out on the same icy roads. It’s a self-contained,…
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The Silent Ones by Anna McPartlin

By DeathBecomesHer
9 September, 2025
1980 was a mere 45 years ago but my, how things have changed! It was a time without tech – no mobile phones or internet. And over in Ireland, women were still expected to give up their jobs once they got married, while unmarried mothers…
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Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
27 February, 2025
Brooklyn native William Boyle sets his latest novel in Gravesend, a changing part of the New York borough. It has the hallmarks of a classic, reminiscent of great American novels like Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, and cements Boyle’s reputation as a master of noir. 28-year-old…
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Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

By DeathBecomesHer
20 December, 2024
In a world populated by off-kilter characters, it takes a certain something to make a protagonist memorable for a crime fiction reader. For me there are just a handful that stick out – Elizabeth in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing, for example; Liz Nugent’s Strange…
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Going to the Dogs by Pierre Lemaitre

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
19 November, 2024
Translated by Frank Wynne — Crime Fiction Lovers already recognise that Pierre Lemaitre is a master of the thriller whose books can be hard, unsettling and downright violent at times – such as his Camille Verhoeven novels. So don’t be fooled by the cosy-style cover…
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The Lover of No Fixed Abode by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

By Paul Burke
8 February, 2024
Translated by Gregory Dowling — It’s surprising it has taken so long for The Lover of No Fixed Abode to appear in English. Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini were highly respected Italian journalists and authors whose novels were bestsellers across Europe, a partnership that began…
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