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Interview: James Polkinghorn

10 May, 2023

Following a career as a litigator and trial lawyer that spanned over 30 years, James Polkinghorn is turning some of his legal experience into crime fiction stories, and the Florida-based author’s debut novel, Liquid Shades of Blue, arrives next week. Inside, a lawyer turned bar…

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Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

By RoughJustice

1 May, 2023

Subtitled A Sister Holiday Mystery, Scorched Grace is all about the crime-solving queer punk nun, Holiday Walsh. Originally from New York, she has found herself after a series of personal disasters as the music teacher at New Orleans’ Saint Sebastien’s Catholic School. Her chaotic life…

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Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto

By Erin Britton

27 March, 2023

Is there any problem that cannot be overcome with the help of a good cup of tea? It certainly seems unlikely as, whether due to the comforting warmth it provides or the reassuring ceremony involved in its preparation, tea has been making people feel better…

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Barking Up the Right Tree by Leigh Russell

By Erin Britton

23 March, 2023

Having guided the redoubtable DI Geraldine Steel through 14 non-cosy cases, English crime author Leigh Russell has shifted her focus from the police procedural to the more gentle side of the crime genre with Barking Up the Right Tree. The first book in the A…

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The Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 March, 2023

If you’ve ever travelled to Egypt, The Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen will take you back there. At least it had that effect on me. And, if you’ve never been there, when you finish this fast-paced thriller, you may feel as if you’ve made the…

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The Greenleaf Murders by RJ Koreto

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 February, 2023

The sense of place is so strong in some crime novels that their setting – London, Paris, St Mary Mead – practically becomes one of the characters. In RJ Koreto’s new mystery, The Greenleaf Murders, a Manhattan Gilded Age mansion takes on that role. It’s…

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The Bone Records by Rich Zahradnik

By Vicki Weisfeld

25 January, 2023

What’s most fun about Rich Zahradnik’s new crime thriller set in Brooklyn is the peek into worlds most of us haven’t experienced first hand. It tells the story of Grigoriy ‘Grigg’ Orlov, a young man who washed out of the police academy when a racist…

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The Narrator by KL Slater

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 October, 2022

Narrated by Clare Corbett and Cristin Atherton — This new crime thriller by KL Slater makes sly metafiction use of the audio medium as its two narrators read the story of Philippa Roberts. Roberts in turn is the best-selling author of nine novels about police…

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Interview: James Polkinghorn

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto

Barking Up the Right Tree by Leigh Russell

The Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen

The Greenleaf Murders by RJ Koreto

The Bone Records by Rich Zahradnik

The Narrator by KL Slater

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