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The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

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Translated by Quentin Bates — The Fox has the perfect mix of the elements readers have grown to love, expect and even demand from Nordic noir novels. In this crime-in-translation debut by Sólveig Pálsdóttir the landscape and characters are grey, gloomy and unpredictable. The plot…
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Hermit by SR White

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Dana Russo is standing at the top of a waterfall, clinically weighing up the best way to commit suicide. Then her phone rings and she must snap back into professional mode. Dana is a detective in a small Australian town, and even though it’s her…
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Seven Lies

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The tired tropes of the domestic thriller are brushed away in Elizabeth Kay’s debut novel which is about the 20-year friendship of best friends Jane and Marnie. Jane narrates. Both young women marry, but Jane’s husband is soon killed by an errant taxi. She loathes…
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Shh by Jocelyn Dexter

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Books with a deaf protagonist are pretty unusual. Two recent ones include Dark Pines by Will Dean and The Silent House by Nell Pattison. Now we’ve got Shh by Jocelyn Dexter – a police procedural and psychological thriller rolled into one neat package. And it’s…
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Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

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It was supposed to be a quiet weekend away for Jodie and her three friends, time away from their children, their husbands, their jobs, their whole lives back in the city. But it didn’t take long before everything started going wrong for Jodie and the…
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