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The 12 Crimes of Christmas 2025

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If Christmas is the season of goodwill, crime fiction authors clearly didn’t get the memo. Each year, mystery writers gift us something far more delicious than socks or scented candles: murders in mansions, bodies by bookstalls, deadly pantomimes and enough suspicious characters to fill Santa’s…
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On the Radar: The Famous Five? Dead?

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The title of our lead book this week, at least, makes us think of simpler times, and it comes from an author who won our Best Indie Novel Award in 2022. Following Sulari Gentill’s Five Found Dead, we’ve got two quite different Yorkshire mysteries, a…
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On the Radar: A whole world of badness

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Let’s take a midwinter journey to parts far and wide with this week’s book news, starting in Argentina with an award-winning novel by Nicolás Ferraro. Also in translation, an Italian crime classic from Fruttero and Lucentini, while David McCloskey’s spooks take us to Moscow and…
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On the Radar: Nordic noir alert

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We know that a lot of people visit our site to find out more about Scandinavian crime fiction, and this week we bring you news of an author who is famous for his crime thrillers in Denmark and is now appearing in English for the…
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