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Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

10 August, 2023

Megan Abbott is an author we crime fiction lovers love to love. She made her name writing noir-ish novels set in the 1950s, from a female perspective. She has co-written graphic novels such as Normandy Gold. Some of her more recent psychological thrillers have explored…

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The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry

By Paul Burke

29 June, 2023

Former Reuters journalist Freya Berry made a big splash last year with her exceptional debut thriller, The Dictator’s Wife. Inspired by the lives of women married to powerful men, it became a Between The Covers pick on BBC Two and a critical and commercial success….

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Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 June, 2023

Canadian author Christopher Huang’s new crime caper might not have the brutal one-liners of Succession, but it does have an unscrupulous patriarch who takes pleasure in manipulating and pitting his three children against one another – even after his death. April 1921: Sir Lawrence Linwood…

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Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston

By Erin Britton

24 May, 2023

Horace Manning is a sinister madman. He is also a scientific genius. This combination of characteristics provides an indication of danger from the outset of Billie Houston’s Twice Round the Clock, although surprisingly, despite an atmosphere of evil hanging around him like a fog of…

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Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

By Erin Britton

14 April, 2022

Death of a Bookseller, the 100th title to be published in the British Library’s sublime Crime Classics series, marks a welcome return to print for Bernard J Farmer. As Martin Edwards notes in his informative introduction to this new edition, copies of the previously long…

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The Second Cut by Louise Welsh

By Paul Burke

2 February, 2022

Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room was a sensation when it was published in 1999. It was a brilliant debut from a provocative new voice in British crime fiction, infusing a Gaelic vibe with a creepy gothic air. Tartan noir credentials firmly established, there was a…

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The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

By Catherine Turnbull

30 December, 2020

Christmas is approaching but there is little good cheer in the bitterly cold air in Haworth, Yorkshire, in December 1845. The literary geniuses turned sleuths Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are about to investigate their second sinister case and it has a grim gothic chill to…

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The Conviction of Cora Burns

By DeathBecomesHer

13 November, 2019

Written by Carolyn Kirby — Way back in the annals of literature, through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the present day, writers have loved to take the trope of nurture versus nature and run with it. Here’s a recent addition to that ever-growing list and it’s…

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Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

The Birdcage Library by Freya Berry

Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston

Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

The Second Cut by Louise Welsh

The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

The Conviction of Cora Burns

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