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Cold Summer: Italian crime on Walter Presents

17 April, 2025

Beautiful Bari on the Adriatic is your next destination, if you tune in to Cold Summer – airing on Channel 4 at midnight on Sundays for eight weeks from 13 April, and available to stream on Walter Presents. But don’t expect sunny beaches and azure…

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The Siberia Job by Josh Haven

By RoughJustice

12 September, 2023

The collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the most important geopolitical events of the last half century, the effects of which are still being felt. The disappearance of the controlled economy and its hierarchy left a chaotic vacuum which is fertile ground for…

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The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2023

It’s been nearly 12 years since we reviewed The Cold Cold Ground, the first novel in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series. For reasons that baffle us, books like Rain Dogs, Gun Street Girl and I Hear the Sirens in the Street have been successful with…

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Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

23 March, 2023

Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi — Fact and fiction fuse in feminist Italian author Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s first novel, Tina, Mafia Soldier, which is also the author’s first to be translated into English. Originally published in 1994, Tina Cannizzaro’s story was inspired by that of Emanuela…

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OJ's Knife by John Gibson

By Paul Burke

5 November, 2021

OJ’s Knife is a fast-paced and entertaining speculative pulp novel in the Mickey Judge series. It’s based on a fictional hunt for the weapon that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994, crimes for which Nicole’s husband, the American Football legend and film…

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Facets of Death by Michael Stanley

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

3 March, 2021

Have you met Detective David ‘Kubu’ Bhengu? You haven’t? Well, you are in luck, because Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip decided to write a prequel to their six-novel series featuring Kubu and Facets of Death is exactly where his story starts. The first thing you…

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Angelino Heights by Adam Bregman

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 March, 2021

Quirky thrillers that don’t follow typical hero’s journey plotting have great appeal. You really don’t know what’s coming next. Adam Bregman’s debut thriller is one of these books, with the quirkiness intensified by the characters’ passion for the Los Angeles of decades ago. The story…

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Moscow Noir – the Swedish financial thriller that turns ugly in Russia

By crimefictionlover

8 September, 2020

Having appeared in The Bridge, Before We Die and Young Wallander, the Swedish actor Adam Pålsson seems to be the rising star of Scandi noir. His latest appearance on UK screens is Moscow Noir, which begins airing at 11pm on Sunday 13 September and will…

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Cold Summer: Italian crime on Walter Presents

The Siberia Job by Josh Haven

The Detective Up Late by Adrian McKinty

Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

OJ's Knife by John Gibson

Facets of Death by Michael Stanley

Angelino Heights by Adam Bregman

Moscow Noir – the Swedish financial thriller that turns ugly in Russia

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