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The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace

By Erin Britton

15 July, 2024

Standards are surely slipping in suburbia when murder is allowed to interrupt wine o’clock. It’s a particularly thorny issue for the now terminally misanthropic Beth, who has been relying on the support of her old friend vino since the death of her actual friend, Charlotte,…

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The Snowdonia Killings by Simon McCleave

By crimefictionlover

17 October, 2022

“No, no, don’t bother yourself with that independently published nonsense.” That’s what the big publishers might want you to think. They have experienced editors and publishers, well-oiled and financed marketing machines and big cheque books (or should that be PayPal accounts, these days?) to lure…

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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

By Paul Burke

1 September, 2021

Paula Hawkins’ debut, The Girl on the Train, with its truly inspired creation, damaged narrator Rachel, was always going to be a tough act to follow. Perhaps it was inevitable that her second novel, Into the Water, would struggle to meet high expectations. So with…

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Hell is Empty

By RoughJustice

2 December, 2016

Written by Conrad Williams — Hell is Empty completes the trilogy of Joel Sorrell novels that began with Dust and Desire last year followed by Sonata of the Dead this spring. Conrad Williams really put his London-based PI through the wringer in those first two books and so…

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Where Roses Never Die

By Jeremy Megraw

14 June, 2016

Written by Gunnar Staalesen, translated by Don Bartlett — It’s been three years since Bergen PI Varg Veum tragically lost his girlfriend in We Shall Inherit the Wind. In the 19th book in the series – which began back in 1977 – the detective is seen wandering around…

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CIS: A classic revisited - Vertigo

By Andre

12 September, 2015

While an Alfred Hitchcock adaptation was always a coup for any author, ultimately the master’s movie tended to overshadow the book – and that is certainly the case with Vertigo (1958). Hitchcock’s psychological thriller is now recognised as one of the best films of the…

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The Devil in the Clock by Harry Shannon

By DavidPrestidge

31 May, 2015

Mick Callahan has an attitude problem, a drinking problem, and he doesn’t suffer fools gladly. When younger, the tendency to use his fists as debating tools saw him thrown off the Navy SEAL training course. It brought about a very sudden and violent end to…

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The Father by Tom O Keenan

By Keith Nixon

18 April, 2015

Sean Rooney is as much of a mess it’s possible for a person to be. That he’s not a corpse is a miracle in itself. He used to be a forensic profiler, but a life pursuing psychopathic killers took its toll and he quietly retired….

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The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace

The Snowdonia Killings by Simon McCleave

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

Hell is Empty

Where Roses Never Die

CIS: A classic revisited - Vertigo

The Devil in the Clock by Harry Shannon

The Father by Tom O Keenan

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