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Death Comes to the Costa del Sol by MH Eccleston

By Erin Britton

1 March, 2023

Sun, sangria and sleuthing are all in store for art conservator Astrid Swift when she decides to make an impromptu visit to her estranged father at his new home in Estepona on the Costa del Sol. Having previously tackled murder and mayhem with aplomb in…

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The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 December, 2021

Art crimes are one of the more intriguing branches of international crime and in The Last Mona Lisa American author Jonathan Santlofer melds past and present to explore several motivations. His conceit begins with a real crime that took place in 1911. Fired from his…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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Forger's Revenge

By DeathBecomesHer

7 January, 2019

Written by Leah Devlin — Ella Winston is just out of prison, banged up for something she did… and also for something she didn’t do. The former art forger is on the straight and narrow now, but she’s also on the hunt for evidence that’ll…

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Still Lives

By Philip Rafferty

11 November, 2018

Written by Maria Hummel — The artist Kim Lord has been the it girl of the contemporary art world since her debut show, The Flesh, in the early 90s. That show was a reconstruction of dirty brothels featuring paintings of the artist herself as both…

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Alive in Shape and Color – Edited by Lawrence Block

By crimefictionlover

1 January, 2018

That wily fox of Manhattan crime writing Lawrence Block has been weaving his Matthew Scudder stories for over 40 years now. In his own contribution to Alive in Shape and Color, which he edits, we find Scudder and his wife sitting on the piazza in…

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First look: Soot by Andrew Martin

By crimefictionlover

12 April, 2017

Andrew Martin has been writing some of the best World War I crime fiction around, with his Jim Stringer series. But the author is never afraid to explore and experiment, and last year he wrote Yellow Diamond, which detailed the lives and crimes of the…

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Broken Monsters

By Andre

26 July, 2014

Written by Lauren Beukes — Detroit always has the potential to be a compelling backdrop to a crime novel, and in the hands of the wildly inventive Lauren Beukes this decaying city becomes a bad dream. The South African writer made her name with science…

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Death Comes to the Costa del Sol by MH Eccleston

The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer

An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

Forger's Revenge

Still Lives

Alive in Shape and Color – Edited by Lawrence Block

First look: Soot by Andrew Martin

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