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Blood on the Broadcast by SDW Hamilton

By Erin Britton
6 February, 2024
There’s religious strife brewing in Belfast, but it’s not what you might expect. A group known as the Followers of Eden have been operating in and around the city for years, although their power and influence have reached significant heights of late. Led by shadily…
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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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Blizzard by Marie Vingtras

By DeathBecomesHer
11 January, 2024
Translated by Stephanie Smee — As if some of us are not cold enough at this time of year, book publishers seem to delight in choosing January to serve up new reads set in the chilliest climates. One such is Marie Vingtras‘s remarkable debut, the…
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Best debut crime novel of 2023 shortlist

By crimefictionlover
22 November, 2023
The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 are underway and as a reader you’re invited to vote on which books will win the accolades this year. Here we look at the six novels nominated by readers for our Best Debut shortlist. For all the shortlists, and…
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You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace

By Erin Britton
22 September, 2023
Recent years have truly witnessed the rise of the female serial killer. Literarily speaking, anyway. From How to Kill Men and Get Away With It to My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family to Bad Men, women are finally breaking through the…
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The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

By Paul Burke
27 July, 2023
They say that history has been largely told by men, but over the past few years crime writers have been throwing light on a hidden past, where women have the starring roles on both sides of the law. The Housekeepers by Alex Hay is an…
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Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
5 July, 2023
Seven women. A man’s head. Who swung the axe that killed Jamie Spellman? Rose Wilding’s debut novel is about the anger of women who are not heard and what happens when they take justice into their own hands. It’s 31 December 1999, the eve of…
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A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

By Erin Britton
22 June, 2023
Nilima Rao’s debut novel, A Disappearance in Fiji, is a historical mystery that sheds light on the devastating consequences of a British colonial policy that is little discussed today. In so doing, she presents a very different image of Fiji from the tropical paradise and…
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