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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 June, 2024

From the first pages of Rachel Howzell Hall’s new psychological thriller, What Fire Brings, Bailey Meadows puts herself in a situation fraught with deception. This young black woman has finagled a writing internship with noted thriller author Jack Beckham, but she isn’t a writer. She’s…

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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

By DeathBecomesHer

5 June, 2024

The world of crime fiction is a broad church, featuring everything from snooping grannies in sleepy rural hamlets to blood spattered serial killers, and everything in between. At the darkest end of that spectrum comes Chris Carter, whose Robert Hunter series is definitely not for…

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Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

By Paul Burke

29 May, 2024

The second Pacific Coast Highway mystery sees the welcome return of proto-detective Adam Zantz. His job as driver on the taxi app Lyft got him into a heap of trouble in The Last Songbird, when he needed to prove his innocence of the murder of…

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Hear Her Scream by Dylan H Jones

By Paul Burke

9 March, 2024

Welsh author Dylan H Jones is an internet bestseller with his Detective Tudor Manx series, set on the island of Ynys Mon – AKA Anglesey – in North Wales. His debut novel, Anglesey Blue, hit Amazon’s top spot in Welsh crime fiction on its first…

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Far Out by Khaled Talib

By Dave Bradley

9 January, 2024

There’s a grand tradition of Saturday afternoon action TV. The 1970s and 80s treated us to high-concept episodic crime capers in sun-kissed locations, all car chases and shout-outs, every mystery solved with a seemingly endless supply of ammunition and helicopters. The Fall Guy. Magnum PI….

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Shadow Dance by Martin Ott

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 December, 2023

Like gritty noir? If so then indie crime author Martin Ott’s new thriller may be right up your alley. Buddy Rivet has ended several tours in Afghanistan, somewhat – no, a great deal – worse for wear. He just wants to get home to his…

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Calico by Lee Goldberg

By DeathBecomesHer

5 December, 2023

Lee Goldberg’s latest novel is something of a head-scratcher. Just what category does it fit into? It’s a modern-day police procedural, it’s a Western, it’s historical crime fiction, it’s… like nothing you’ve ever read before! Welcome to Calico – your reading experience is never likely…

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Gideon Resurrection by Grant Rosenberg

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 November, 2023

Grant Rosenberg’s new crime thriller, second in a trilogy, is the very definition of a book opening in medias res – in the middle of things or, as my writing coach used to say, ‘pot already boiling.’ You are not at a disadvantage if you…

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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

Hear Her Scream by Dylan H Jones

Far Out by Khaled Talib

Shadow Dance by Martin Ott

Calico by Lee Goldberg

Gideon Resurrection by Grant Rosenberg

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