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Our top 10 crime reads for Halloween 2026

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Halloween and crime fiction are a devilishly good pairing. When the nights draw in, the leaves start to fall and the shadows seem just a little longer than usual, there’s something joyful about settling down with a good murder mystery, preferably somewhere warm and with…
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Strange Houses by Uketsu

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Translated by Jim Rion — In January, we reviewed Strange Pictures by surrealist Japanese YouTuber and dapper mask-wearer Uketsu. That was the author’s second novel, and now his debut, Strange Houses, has also been translated into English. Focusing on the disturbing hidden meanings that can…
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Whistle by Linwood Barclay

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With the publication of Whistle, Canadian author Linwood Barclay has ventured into the horror genre. However, his supernatural thriller also has a police procedural storyline that crime fiction lovers might. If you follow Barclay on X or BlueSky, you may have seen photos of the…
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Interview: Linwood Barclay

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If the career of an author were a storyline, Linwood Barclay has thrown down a bit of a plot twist with his latest novel. What we’re used to is pacy thrillers with themes pulled from the headlines. Private detectives. Investigative journalists. Cops. However, with Whistle,…
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Small Fires by Ronnie Turner

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Folk horror. Gothic thriller. Crime novel, a bit, maybe. You can’t readily pigeonhole Small Fires, but what you can say is that this is a remarkable work of the imagination. Just as the likes of William Blake and JRR Tolkien envisaged strange, distant realms and…
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Strange Pictures by Uketsu

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Translated by Jim Rion — Strange Pictures is Uketsu’s second novel but the first to be translated into English. It’s a sinister and original book that straddles the line between crime and horror, drawing readers into a dark, unsettling and deeply immersive world of interconnected…
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