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Under Vixens Mere by Kit Fielding

24 October, 2025

Kit Fielding’s Under Vixens Mere takes the closed-circle trope to a whole new setting: a collection of houseboats and their residents near the village of Broome in the English countryside. On the surface, Vixen’s Mere is a peaceful community of people whose lives have grown…

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King of Ashes by SA Cosby

By RoughJustice

24 July, 2025

Crime author SA Cosby is now one of America’s leading crime authors. Following his successes with Blacktop Wasteland, Razorblade Tears and All the Sinners Bleed, his new novel, King of Ashes, is one of the most anticipated releases of 2025. Cosby’s novels are set in…

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The Chemist by AA Dhand

By DeathBecomesHer

1 June, 2025

The Yorkshire city of Leeds has its fair share of leafy suburbs – but there’s little sign of them in AA Dhand’s latest novel, The Chemist. Instead, pharmacist Idris Khan plies his trade in Headingley, an area heavily populated with students, not too far from the…

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Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

By RoughJustice

24 March, 2025

Friends Helping Friends is the story of two young men and one slightly older woman in present day Denver, Colorado. At the beginning of the story the two men, Bunny Simpson and Jerry LeClair know each other, and are indeed friends. Neither of them know…

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Pele's Prerogative by Albert Tucher

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 February, 2025

Had it with wind, winter, and the dark? A Hawai`i vacation might be just what you need. Albert Tucher’s new Big Island Mystery, Pele’s Prerogative, provides plenty of local colour to make you think you’ve vacationed in that island paradise, but without jet-lag or the…

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Edda Green by Peter Sarda

By Paul Burke

13 January, 2025

Edda Green concludes Peter Sarda’s Hamburg Noir trilogy featuring detectives Ritter and Beck, though the pair who first appeared in One Way Ticket take a backseat here. This is very much Edda Green’s story. It’s a violent, gritty tale steeped in the left-wing politics and…

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Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

By Sharon Richardson

15 April, 2024

Pay Dirt is the 22nd book in the VI Warshawski series by veteran US crime author Sara Paretsky. Back in the 1980s, female characters in crime novels tended to be vamps or victims, according to the author, so at that time a lead character like…

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The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 April, 2023

Translated by Rachel Ward — Unlike Erdinger or St Pauli Girl, German crime fiction doesn’t always travel as well as the country’s beers. However, the Chastity Riley series by Simone Buchholz has been something to behold. Beginning with Blue Night, Orenda Books has translated and…

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Under Vixens Mere by Kit Fielding

King of Ashes by SA Cosby

The Chemist by AA Dhand

Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

Pele's Prerogative by Albert Tucher

Edda Green by Peter Sarda

Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

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