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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

By Paul Burke

10 September, 2024

Even today, Agatha Christie still outsells nearly all other crime fiction writers and our fascination with her clever, quiet amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple, is evergreen. That is obvious from the continuing popularity of the TV series, even as the batten is handed between actors…

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Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald

By Erin Britton

4 September, 2024

Bed, breakfast and… butchery? It’s not exactly what Ally McKinley had in mind when she decamped from Edinburgh to run a guesthouse in the picturesque village of Locharran in the Scottish Highlands, but she soon discovers that murder and the solving thereof offer a great…

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Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R Rendon

By Sharon Richardson

28 August, 2024

Native American author Marcie R Rendon is known in crime fiction for her smart and engaging Cash Blackbear series, but with Where They Last Saw Her she brings us a standalone novel about an amateur detective searching for some women. At a deeper level, Rendon…

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The Examiner by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

28 August, 2024

If competition in academia is typically so fierce because the stakes are so low, what will happen when the stakes are raised to murder? It’s a question every bit as thorny as the conundrums facing the venerable British institutions – amateur dramatics, children’s literature, niche…

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The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 June, 2024

This intriguing contemporary whodunnit is a mystery, but it’s also like a trip back in time to an era when Cornish midsummer revelry involved bonfires, ancient Celtic music, river offerings and wicker animals being consumed in the ritual pyre. American author Sofia Slater draws on…

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Murder and Mamon by Mia P Manansala

By Sharon Richardson

20 February, 2024

Murder and Mamon is the fourth book in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery series by Mia P Manansala. It is a delightful culinary cosy mystery about Lila Macapagal, a baker and amateur detective. Lila is passionate about food, family and friends. Should anything happen to…

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Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen

By Erin Britton

18 January, 2024

Oskar Jensen’s Helle & Death is an ingenious mystery that embraces several beloved tropes from the Golden Age of Murder – the country house murder, the locked room mystery and the closed circle of suspects – but brings them firmly into the 21st century with…

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I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson

By Sharon Richardson

28 December, 2023

Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson are highly regarded Canadian humorists – Leacock Award winners, no less – who now and again joins forces to pen books like How to be a Canadian. Now they’ve turned their satirical eye on cosy crime fiction with a short…

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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

Murder in the Scottish Highlands by Dee MacDonald

Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R Rendon

The Examiner by Janice Hallett

The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater

Murder and Mamon by Mia P Manansala

Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen

I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson

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