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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 January, 2021

Debut author Julie Carrick Dalton deserves praise for making concerns about important social issues – climate change and immigration – an integral part of her new novel. It isn’t always easy to do that without turning a book into a lecture or consciousness-raising exercise. In…

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Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

By DeathBecomesHer

13 January, 2021

Kate Aitken left New York under a cloud, heading to California and a new start. In the Big Apple she was a journalist, caught up in the buzz and excitement of the vibrant city; now in the little coastal town of Callinas she is living…

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Forgiving Stephen Redmond by AJ Sidransky

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 January, 2021

In 2008, workmen tearing down a clutch of derelict Washington Heights rowhouses make a grim discovery. Behind the plaster of an upstairs bedroom is the body of a man sitting in a chair, wearing a hat. To the dismay of the demolition foreman, NYPD detectives…

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Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 December, 2020

Translated by Marlaine Delargy — Detective Inspector Embla Nyström returns in the third instalment of Helene Tursten’s series based on the detective. Snowdrift picks up only eight days after the end of 2019’s Winter Grave when Embla receives a call from her childhood friend, Louise…

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One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 November, 2020

In Tara Laskowski’s award-winning suspense novel One Night Gone, two women who have never met and never will meet, women of different ages with seemingly nothing in common, have unexpected and consequential connections after all. At the end of the summer of 1986, a teenager…

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A Conspiracy of Bones

By DeathBecomesHer

19 March, 2020

Written by Kathy Reichs — We’re at book 19 featuring forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance ‘Tempe’ Brennan, and as A Conspiracy of Bones opens, our heroine is at home in North Carolina recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm. It’s the first sign that this novel is…

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Firewatching

By DeathBecomesHer

1 March, 2020

Written by Russ Thomas — Meet DS Adam Tyler. He is the sole member of South Yorkshire Police’s cold case team, sidelined after an ‘incident’ which put paid to any chances of rising through the ranks. He’s the central character in this debut novel by…

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Conviction

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 May, 2019

Written by Denise Mina — In her deftly plotted new crime thriller, Denise Mina effectively uses one of my favourite devices – the story-within-a-story – to draw you in. First-person narrator Anna McDonald lives in Glasgow with her older husband Hamish and two young daughters….

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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton

Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar

Forgiving Stephen Redmond by AJ Sidransky

Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

A Conspiracy of Bones

Firewatching

Conviction

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