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Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider

By Vicki Weisfeld

15 April, 2025

Translated by Astrid Freuler — We’ve been reviewing Hansjörg Schneider’s entertaining stories about the frustrations of Peter Hunkeler, an aging and cynical detective (now retired) of the police force of Basel, Switzerland, ever since The Basel Killings was translated into English in 2021. Basel is…

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The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 April, 2025

Second in this talented team’s genre mashup, The Railway Conspiracy builds on the characters so expertly introduced in last year’s The Murder of Mr Ma. Set in London in the mid-1920s, the series’ main character is Judge Dee Ren Jie, inspired by not only on…

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A Pact With the Devil by Anna Legat

By Paul Burke

10 April, 2025

Real figures from the past are always an intriguing part of historical fiction. The bonus for crime writers is being able to mix them up in murder mysteries and Legat has chosen the Polish physicist Nicolaus Copernicus to be her protagonist and amateur detective in…

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The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt

By RoughJustice

8 April, 2025

Chris Offutt returns with his fourth Mick Hardin novel, and once again the unwilling investigator is working the author’s beloved eastern Kentucky hills. In Code of the Hills, last year, the way was cleared for him to lead Eldridge County law enforcement. Mick’s sister, the county…

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Falls to Pieces by Douglas Corleone

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 April, 2025

If you’re a fan of stories set in an earthly paradise, you might enjoy Douglas Corleone’s new thriller, Falls to Pieces, about a woman and her teenage daughter living off the grid in Hawai`i. Kati Dawes (her new name) fled from New England with her…

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Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

By Erin Britton

1 April, 2025

Blazing eyes? Luminous muzzle? Not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen? No, that would be another hound altogether. The shaggy dog story keeping Torben Helle awake at night concerns Mortimer, an Irish wolfhound that had long been the closest companion of Dame…

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Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

By Paul Burke

25 March, 2025

French author Johana Gustawsson and her Norwegian counterpart Thomas Enger are each formidable and successful in their own right. Now they’ve joined forces for a brand new crime fiction series set in Norway. It features a psychologist with specialist skills working for the Oslo police…

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Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 March, 2025

Hannah Deitch’s debut, Killer Potential, is one of those stories that sneaks up on you and before too many pages have turned has its claws in you good and solid. The story is a first-person narrative in the voice of Evie Gordon, a 20-something whose…

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Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider

The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan

A Pact With the Devil by Anna Legat

The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt

Falls to Pieces by Douglas Corleone

Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

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