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Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2025

There’s an embarrassment of riches when you’re asked to look back on a year’s worth of crime the thriller fiction. Authors are rising to the moment and creating stories that resonate with today’s world. Some involve the worst aspects of ubiquitous technology (ubiquity being one…
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On the Radar: Soap star monsters

Can you imagine what would happen if someone was murdered on the set of Coronation Street? One of the show’s former writers has imagined just that as he turns his talents to crime fiction. We start our report with Martin Sterling’s We Create Monsters, but…
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Gothic crime with plenty of spooks

On the Radar — Did somebody say Halloween? Well, this week’s new crime books all have a bit of a ghostly theme to them, from Elly Griffiths’ creepy new novel The Stranger Diaries through to a Rebecca-inspired mystery set in New York and some espionage…
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