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The Last Goodbye by Tim Weaver

By DeathBecomesHer

9 June, 2023

Anyone who has read The Blackbird, the previous book in Tim Weaver’s series, will know that its finale left David Raker in a precarious place. As The Last Goodbye begins, the missing persons investigator is thanking his lucky stars that he is still one step…

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The Willow Marsh Murder

By DeathBecomesHer

31 January, 2020

Written by Karen Charlton — Whether it is focusing on shenanigans in the Roman Empire or crooked deals during the Cold War, historical crime is a popular genre with readers of all ages. Some books skim the surface of the era in which they are…

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The Lingering

By DeathBecomesHer

21 September, 2018

Written by SJI Holliday — Susi Holliday has been making quite a name for herself as a writer of creepy and claustrophobic thrillers. She is the author of the Banktoun trilogy and we reviewed book one, Black Wood, in 2015. One of her short stories, Home…

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The Optician's Wife by Betsy Reavley

By DavidPrestidge

28 June, 2016

Every single thing about Deborah Campaign seems to be ordinary. If they notice her at all, people see frizzy hair, a slightly pear-shaped build, charity shop clothes and an unremarkable checkout girl in Woolworths. At home, in the anonymous terraced house in a quiet Cambridge…

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Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

By DeathBecomesHer

14 March, 2016

Old-style TV crime dramas have a lot to answer for. At an hour long (minus advert breaks) they had a beginning, middle and all-tied-up-in-a-neat-bow ending. Sadly, life isn’t like that. Some crimes are never solved, with both police and victims stuck in a limbo they…

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The Promise by Alison Bruce

By MarinaSofia

30 January, 2016

It’s been a bit of a wait for the sixth book in the Gary Goodhew series, so it was with a sigh of contentment that I settled down with the latest adventures of one of my favourite young detectives. I have to admit to having…

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Tell No Tales by Eva Dolan

By crimefictionlover

6 January, 2015

Dead men tell no tales. CSI’s Gus Grissom would probably take issue with that old adage, but for Peterborough detectives Dushan Zigic and Mel Ferreira it’s quite a problem. Just when they think they’ve got a suspect or witness to break open their investigation, the…

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Long Way Home

By crimefictionlover

20 April, 2014

It’s all good when one of our writers lays down her critic’s pen and writes her own novel. There can hardly have been a more stunning debut than this, by Eva Dolan. Scene – the teeming but unglamorous East Anglian city of Peterborough, on the…

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The Last Goodbye by Tim Weaver

The Willow Marsh Murder

The Lingering

The Optician's Wife by Betsy Reavley

Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

The Promise by Alison Bruce

Tell No Tales by Eva Dolan

Long Way Home

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