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Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

21 June, 2025

When it comes to metafiction in the crime genre, nobody does it better than Anthony Horowitz. His Daniel Hawthorne detective novels are brilliant, and his Magpie Murders stories have been big hit in print and on screen thanks to the BBC series. Marble Hall Murders…

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First look: Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

By crimefictionlover

23 April, 2025

Well, have a good looksie at what has just arrived in the mail from Harper in the US of A – and no tariffs attached, as far as we can tell. Marble Hall Murders is the third book in the Susan Ryeland series by British…

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A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

By Paul Burke

11 October, 2024

Graeme Macrae Burnet is best known for his second novel, His Bloody Project, which saw huge commercial success in 2016. A dark anatomy of a 19th century Highland murder case that devastated a crofting community, it seemed a world away from his debut novel, The…

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Past Lying by Val McDermid

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 November, 2023

Publication of a new police procedural featuring Val McDermid’s intrepid Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is something to get excited about. The streets of Edinburgh have never been so ominous – or empty – as when this story takes place in April 2020, at the…

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After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 June, 2023

Regular Crime Fiction Lover readers will recall that The Woman in the Library won Best Indie Novel in our 2022 awards. Now Australian publisher Ultimo Press has released After She Wrote him in the UK, a book that was initially published as Crossing the Lines…

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The Narrator by KL Slater

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 October, 2022

Narrated by Clare Corbett and Cristin Atherton — This new crime thriller by KL Slater makes sly metafiction use of the audio medium as its two narrators read the story of Philippa Roberts. Roberts in turn is the best-selling author of nine novels about police…

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 September, 2022

The Cunninghams are having a little family get-together at Sky Lodge, a snowbound mountain retreat in Australia, the perfect setting for mulled wine and murder. If your first thought is that this is one of those stories where a group of people get snowed in…

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The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

By crimefictionlover

18 August, 2022

Book four in Anthony Horowitz’s clever Hawthorne series feels like a non-starter. It begins with Horowitz, who is not only the narrator but is an active participant in the story, telling Daniel Hawthorne that he’s not interested in writing another book about the former Metropolitan…

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Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

First look: Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Past Lying by Val McDermid

After She Wrote Him by Sulari Gentill

The Narrator by KL Slater

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

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