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The Corpse with the Pearly Smile by Cathy Ace

15 October, 2024

The Corpse with the Pearly Smile is the 14th book in the globetrotting Cait Morgan series by Cathy Ace. Cait Morgan is a Welsh-Canadian professor of criminal psychology. Her husband Bud Anderson is a retired cop. Their combined skill set and experience make them a…

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On the Radar: Rebus 24

By crimefictionlover

27 September, 2024

Edinburgh’s man in black, Ian Rankin, is such a legend that he’s been invited to the launch of The Cure’s new album. We hope Robert Smith is reading because as he puts the finishing notes to the band’s 14th LP, Ian Rankin is about to…

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On the Radar: The Fortnight Killer

By crimefictionlover

14 June, 2024

Just like the culprit in Stuart MacBride’s latest mystery, our new books column hits you like clockwork. You can more or less set your watch by it. And we kill every Friday rather than once a fortnight, which is great value. Let’s begin this week…

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The Case of the Bereaved Butler by Cathy Ace

By Erin Britton

22 April, 2024

The women of the WISE Enquiries Agency, Wales’s premier private detectives, face a busy summer of sleuthing in The Case of the Bereaved Butler. It marks the ninth outing for Cathy Ace’s intrepid female investigators, who are once again faced with a plethora of complex…

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On the Radar: It was the butler, no?

By crimefictionlover

1 March, 2024

There’s nothing like crime fiction involving a butler to take you back to the Golden Age, the inspiration for so many cosy crime novels. So we’ll start this week’s new books report with the latest from Cathy Ace, then migrate into psychological thrillers, detective crime…

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The Corpse with the Opal Fingers by Cathy Ace

By Sharon Richardson

29 November, 2023

The Corpse with the Opal Fingers is the 13th book in the Cait Morgan series by Cathy Ace. This series features a globe-trotting duo, Welsh-Canadian professor of criminal psychology, Cait Morgan and her husband, Bud Anderson who is a retired cop. These books are traditional…

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On the Radar: Original crime fiction

By crimefictionlover

3 November, 2023

We love a bit of variety and this week our report covers new books by five very different authors, each with their own original take on things. Lee Matthew Goldberg’s The Great Gimmelmans is our starting point, from a New York indie author who routinely…

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On the Radar: A quintet of woman crime authors

By crimefictionlover

7 July, 2023

No. It’s not because we’re woke cultural Marxists. It’s not inverted institutional sexism or conscious unconscious bias. It’s just how the cookie crumbled. Which is a long-winded way of getting to the fact that all five of the new books in this week’s report are…

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The Corpse with the Pearly Smile by Cathy Ace

On the Radar: Rebus 24

On the Radar: The Fortnight Killer

The Case of the Bereaved Butler by Cathy Ace

On the Radar: It was the butler, no?

The Corpse with the Opal Fingers by Cathy Ace

On the Radar: Original crime fiction

On the Radar: A quintet of woman crime authors

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