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End of Summer: New Swedish crime series comes to BBC Four

5 July, 2024

It’s July at the time of writing – the perfect time of year for the Swedish crime show End of Summer to arrive with subtitles on BBC Four. From 9pm on Saturday 6 July, viewers in the UK will be able to enjoy double episodes…

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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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Savage Ridge by Morgan Greene

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 March, 2024

Savage Ridge is a thriller named for the tiny town in the Northwest United States where the action takes place. Ten years before the now of the story, three teenage best friends – Nicholas Pips, Emmy Nailer, and Peter Sachs – committed murder. This isn’t…

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Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French

By DeathBecomesHer

22 February, 2024

Ah, that well worn crime fiction trope, the dual timeline! What fun it is to skip back and forth across the decades, trying to keep the multiple story paths on point in an increasingly frazzled brain! Is it any wonder my heart sank upon seeing…

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Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

By DeathBecomesHer

31 January, 2024

Am I the only one who feels mighty old when a book set in 1968 is called historical crime fiction? It’s a label that’s been applied to Where We Lie, by Irish debut author Claire Coughlan and set in Dublin at the end of the…

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Past Lying by Val McDermid

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 November, 2023

Publication of a new police procedural featuring Val McDermid’s intrepid Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is something to get excited about. The streets of Edinburgh have never been so ominous – or empty – as when this story takes place in April 2020, at the…

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Australian crime drama Black Snow comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

21 September, 2023

If you thought Australian television’s finest output was confined to 1990s afternoon soap operas, then prepare to recalibrate. The country has produced numerous gripping crime dramas over the past five or six years, and the latest – Black Snow – arrives in the UK at…

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The Hurricane Blonde by Halley Sutton

By RoughJustice

16 August, 2023

Salma Lowe is Hollywood Royalty. Or thought perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she comes from a bona fide Hollywood dynasty, but her own star has fallen somewhat. Salma’s mother is the famous Vivienne Powell, film star and method acting guru. Vivienne…

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End of Summer: New Swedish crime series comes to BBC Four

Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

Savage Ridge by Morgan Greene

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? by Nicci French

Where They Lie by Claire Coughlan

Past Lying by Val McDermid

Australian crime drama Black Snow comes to BBC Four

The Hurricane Blonde by Halley Sutton

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