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The Book Club Murders by Maggie Allswell

By Erin Britton

6 July, 2026

There is a distinguished tradition of amateur sleuths solving crimes over cups of tea, but Maggie Allswell’s The Book Club Murders brings a welcome twist to the formula. Rather than centring on a retired detective, an inquisitive vicar or an improbably gifted baker, Allswell hands…

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Murder on the Red River by Marcie R Rendon

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 July, 2026

This award-winning novel is set in the 1970s on both sides of the Red River, which is the border between the US states of Minnesota and North Dakota. It was first published in 2017 in the US and is now arriving in the UK. Author…

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Collateral Death by J Kushley

By Erin Britton

30 June, 2026

Crime fiction is a genre built on familiar tropes: the suspicious death, the damaged investigator, the institution that prefers easy answers over difficult truths. What makes a mystery novel memorable is not whether it uses these conventions but what it does with them. In Collateral…

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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 June, 2026

Translated by Frances Riddle — Claudia Piñeiro is one of Argentina’s most translated authors and her novel Elena Knows was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and developed into a Netflix film. In Cathedrals, Piñeiro delivers a psychological family crime novel that focuses…

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First Look: Backwater by James Sallis

By crimefictionlover

17 June, 2026

In January 2025, the crime fiction world lost one of its greats with the passing of the American author James Sallis. However, when he passed away of pneumonia aged 81, the author left behind one last manuscript – Backwater – and it’s coming out in…

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Solitary Agents by David Goodman

By Chris Connor

11 June, 2026

David Goodman’s A Reluctant Spy was widely acclaimed upon release in 2025, the Legends programme at its heart a clever twist on spy fiction and something the CIA themselves have commented on. The programme sees everyday civilians trade their identities with agents and live a…

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She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo

By Erin Britton

10 June, 2026

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo (1902-1981) is a wonderfully strange blend of Golden Age puzzle mystery, Gothic melodrama and distinctly Japanese atmosphere. Originally published as Woman Walking at Night in Japan, in 1948, it’s another perplexing case for…

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A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

By Erin Britton

8 June, 2026

There’s something delightfully audacious about the premise of A Deadly Episode. The latest instalment in Anthony Horowitz’s long-running Hawthorne series begins with a murder that appears, at first glance anyway, to be deeply personal: private detective Daniel Hawthorne is stabbed to death. Except he isn’t….

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The Book Club Murders by Maggie Allswell

Murder on the Red River by Marcie R Rendon

Collateral Death by J Kushley

Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

First Look: Backwater by James Sallis

Solitary Agents by David Goodman

She Walks at Night by Seishi Yokomizo

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

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