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First Look: The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

29 April, 2026

We loved You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace – so much so that it earned a five-star review here on the site. Our readers loved it too, voting it the Best Debut Novel of 2023 in the Crime Fiction Lover Awards that…

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Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 April, 2026

Translated by Florian Duijsens — Criminal defence lawyer Björn Diemel is a character who finds maintaining a work-life balance slightly challenging in Murder Mindfully by German crime author Karsten Dusse. The fact that he represents Berlin’s most dangerous criminals, specifically the volatile mob boss Dragan…

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An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

By Paul Burke

13 February, 2026

Translated by Gregory Dowling — A lot of Italian crime fiction in English is dark, mafia-related or snowbound. Manzini, Carlotto, de Cataldo and Roberto Saviano spring to mind. The Fruttero and Lucentini novels are different, lighter, witty, slightly eccentric and colourful but no less steeped…

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Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

1 August, 2025

Translated by Quentin Bates — It’s not for her loveable nature that Stella Blómkvist is the most popular and successful defence lawyer in Iceland, she is a winner, pure and simple, tenacious and formidable. A little and sometimes a lot scary, Stella is exactly who…

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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by LM Chilton

By DeathBecomesHer

3 April, 2025

Love it or hate it, social media has inveigled itself into our lives and there’s little chance of escaping its all-encompassing reach. Take WhatsApp, for instance. Once you succumb to its charms, you’ll find yourself in group after group, each one pinging away as members…

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Interview: Ken Harris

By crimefictionlover

31 January, 2025

After serving 32 years in the FBI, Ken Harris retired, sat back for a moment or two, and realised he had stories to tell. He wanted to use his experience as an intelligence analyst, but wasn’t interested in all-action hero stories like James Bond. He…

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Nightingale and Co by Charlotte Printz

By Paul Burke

20 January, 2025

Translated by Marina Sofia — A new historical cosy crime set in Cold War West Germany is a welcome start to the new year, particularly as this is a period and place more commonly seen through the darker lens of espionage fiction. It’s 1961 and…

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Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

By Paul Burke

29 May, 2024

The second Pacific Coast Highway mystery sees the welcome return of proto-detective Adam Zantz. His job as driver on the taxi app Lyft got him into a heap of trouble in The Last Songbird, when he needed to prove his innocence of the murder of…

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First Look: The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse

An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

Murder Tide by Stella Blómkvist

Interview: Ken Harris

Nightingale and Co by Charlotte Printz

Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

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