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The 12 Crimes of Christmas 2025

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If Christmas is the season of goodwill, crime fiction authors clearly didn’t get the memo. Each year, mystery writers gift us something far more delicious than socks or scented candles: murders in mansions, bodies by bookstalls, deadly pantomimes and enough suspicious characters to fill Santa’s…
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On the Radar: New Slow Horses at a gallop

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As we hurtle toward September, excitement fills the air because we’ll soon have the latest novel in the Slough House series in for review, plus a new series of Slow Horses (also based on Mick Herron’s British espionage stories) arriving on Apple TV+ on 24…
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On the Radar: Puzzling cases to solve

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There are strong themes of Golden Age, cosy and puzzle mysteries in this week’s new books report, which includes works by Martin Edwards, Stephanie Austin, Maureen Jennings, Leigh Russell and JD Kirk. Most of them take us to places real and fictional in the British…
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On the Radar: Would you kill for me?

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Series or standalone? Standalone or series? Which do you prefer? The reason we ask is that the winner of our Best Author Editor’s Choice Award 2022, Steve Cavanagh, has announced that his next book is a standalone. Will lovers of his Eddie Flynn series be…
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