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Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan

By Paul Burke

5 November, 2025

Welcome to what has become the James Bond universe. If you think you’ve seen a lot of the characters over the years, brace yourself because it’s going to get more intense. Amazon is gearing up for the next movie and who knows a spin off…

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Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle

By Erin Britton

23 October, 2025

KJ Whittle’s debut novel, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests, is a psychological mystery that balances the intrigue of a traditional whodunnit with the moral uncertainty of a contemporary character study. The puzzle begins when seven strangers are invited to a dinner party at…

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The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

21 October, 2025

Crime pays, especially true crime. Seeking to cash in on the macabre boom in interest in all things criminal, Dominic Eastwood approaches a contact at Netflix about making a documentary series concerning the peculiar events that befell his aunt and uncle, Sue and Mal Eastwood,…

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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

By Erin Britton

24 September, 2025

Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…

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Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

By Erin Britton

18 September, 2025

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a twist-filled murder mystery that blends classic crime fiction tropes with a modern, interactive narrative structure. With a hefty dose of festive flair, Martin Edwards pays homage to Golden Age detective stories while simultaneously deconstructing them…

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A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

By DeathBecomesHer

14 July, 2025

We crime fiction lovers do enjoy a good book festival – but for all the cloak and dagger and fake crime scene tape that abound there, I don’t imagine that many of us have actually discovered an honest-to-goodness murder victim at one. That dubious pleasure…

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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies by LM Chilton

By DeathBecomesHer

3 April, 2025

Love it or hate it, social media has inveigled itself into our lives and there’s little chance of escaping its all-encompassing reach. Take WhatsApp, for instance. Once you succumb to its charms, you’ll find yourself in group after group, each one pinging away as members…

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Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

By Dave Bradley

23 January, 2025

A computer game is perhaps an unexpected addition to Crime Fiction Lover’s feature section. But Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse might just make you reach for your keyboard instead of cracking the spine on a new novel. The fourth entry in HitherYon’s Murder…

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Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan

Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle

The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards

A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

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