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The Trap by Ava Glass

By Paul Burke

26 July, 2024

It’s great to see female protagonists front and centre in modern spy thrillers and British agent Emma Makepeace is a case in point. First appearing in The Chase last year, she literally hit the ground running while dodging bullets as she fought to keep herself…

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Halfway House by Helen FitzGerald

By Sharon Richardson

15 May, 2024

Helen FitzGerald is known primarily for writing gripping thrillers like The Cry (2013), which was adapted for television in 2018. If you have ever had the good fortune to attend a crime fiction festival with her on a panel, you will also be aware of…

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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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The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone

By Sharon Richardson

13 September, 2023

Three generations of women in the Skelf family operating both a funeral home and a private investigation agency may sound like an unusual premise for a crime fiction book, however author Doug Johnstone makes it work. It works so well that The Opposite of Lonely…

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Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

By DeathBecomesHer

26 June, 2023

Chris Brookmyre and his wife Dr Marisa Haetzman took that old adage of ‘write what you know’ to heart when they came up with The Way of all Flesh, first in a series of historical crime novels set in Victorian Edinburgh. Brookmyre, after all, is…

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Run to Ground by Stuart Johnstone

By Paul Burke

29 November, 2022

The term Tartan noir might be getting a little tired or over used but gritty Scottish crime fiction still seems to be at the vanguard of British crime writing. Run to Ground is an Edinburgh set police procedural, the third outing for Sergeant Don Colyear….

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A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

By DeathBecomesHer

23 October, 2022

It comes as something of a shock to realise that John Rebus has been around for 35 years – he first appeared in Knots and Crosses, way back in 1987. A Heart Full of Headstones is the irascible ex-cop’s 24th outing in print and these…

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Find Her First by Emma Christie

By Vicki Weisfeld

18 January, 2022

Former newspaper journalist Emma Christie is a crime author whose reputation is growing. Her first novel, The Silent Daughter, was close to winning a number of awards in 2021 and her second, Find Her First, is another wonderful read. It can be described as a…

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The Trap by Ava Glass

Halfway House by Helen FitzGerald

Past Lying by Val McDermid

The Opposite of Lonely by Doug Johnstone

Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry

Run to Ground by Stuart Johnstone

A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

Find Her First by Emma Christie

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