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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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Her Sister's Killer by Mari Hannah

By Paul Burke

7 March, 2025

With Vera saying ‘ta-ra’ to viewers of ITV’s popular series based on the novels by Ann Cleeves, perhaps there’s a vacancy for a new Northeast England-based detective? While a TV series is being made based on her DCI Kate Daniels books, former probation officer Mari…

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Leo by Deon Meyer

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 March, 2025

Translated by KL Seegers — Six months ago, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido were demoted from their posts as part of Cape Town’s elite crime-fighters, The Hawks, after an incident with the corrupt State Security Agency. Reassigned to Stellenbosch, a university town about 30…

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Broken Fields by Marcie R Rendon

By Sharon Richardson

5 March, 2025

Broken Fields is the fourth book in Marcie R Rendon’s character-driven series featuring Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibway woman in 1970s Minnesota. With a plot involving a murdered farmer and an abandoned child, Broken Fields will draw you in and by the time you finish…

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Death on Ice by RO Thorp

By Erin Britton

4 March, 2025

It’s all aboard for murder and mayhem as the Dauphin, an unusually luxurious marine research vessel, sets sail from Northern England and makes for the frigid waters of the Arctic. Among the passengers, an eclectic mix of wealthy tourists and single-minded researchers, are Rose and…

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Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

27 February, 2025

Brooklyn native William Boyle sets his latest novel in Gravesend, a changing part of the New York borough. It has the hallmarks of a classic, reminiscent of great American novels like Dennis Lehane’s Mystic River, and cements Boyle’s reputation as a master of noir. 28-year-old…

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Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 February, 2025

No doubt many crime fiction readers have eagerly anticipated Presumed Guilty, Scott Turow’s new legal thriller. I know I looked forward to seeing what his character, Rusty Sabich, is up to, now that he’s in his 70s. Rusty, you may recall, was the protagonist of…

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Son by Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger

Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

Her Sister's Killer by Mari Hannah

Leo by Deon Meyer

Broken Fields by Marcie R Rendon

Death on Ice by RO Thorp

Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle

Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow

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