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The Missing Family by Tim Weaver

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 July, 2024

The Missing Family is the latest in British author Tim Weaver’s popular series of thrillers featuring missing-persons investigator David Raker. Here, Weaver presents an impossible crime, the unexpected tentacles of which stretch clear across the Atlantic and the North American continent. Sarah Fowler hires Raker…

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The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace

By Erin Britton

15 July, 2024

Standards are surely slipping in suburbia when murder is allowed to interrupt wine o’clock. It’s a particularly thorny issue for the now terminally misanthropic Beth, who has been relying on the support of her old friend vino since the death of her actual friend, Charlotte,…

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The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

By Erin Britton

4 July, 2024

It’s October 1944 and all is far from well in the Republic of Salò. As the last bastion of Fascism in Italy, the tranquil setting on the shore of Lake Garda belies the turmoil currently engulfing the seat of the German-backed puppet government. As the…

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The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

By Sharon Richardson

25 June, 2024

Last year Mark Billingham introduced us to the unpredictable Detective Sergeant Declan Miller in The Last Dance, a book that takes a different tone to the author’s Thorne novels. The Wrong Hands continues Declan’s story along with the mix of genres seen in the first…

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Bay of Thieves by Megan Davis

By Paul Burke

18 June, 2024

Megan Davis’s debut The Messenger in 2023 was a powerful blend of conspiracy thriller and psychological drama. Building on some themes in that novel, the abuse of power and wealth are to the front again in Bay of Thieves – a financial thriller right on…

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The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 June, 2024

This intriguing contemporary whodunnit is a mystery, but it’s also like a trip back in time to an era when Cornish midsummer revelry involved bonfires, ancient Celtic music, river offerings and wicker animals being consumed in the ritual pyre. American author Sofia Slater draws on…

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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 June, 2024

From the first pages of Rachel Howzell Hall’s new psychological thriller, What Fire Brings, Bailey Meadows puts herself in a situation fraught with deception. This young black woman has finagled a writing internship with noted thriller author Jack Beckham, but she isn’t a writer. She’s…

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A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Dave Bradley

10 June, 2024

When most people think of Shirley Jackson, they think of horror. The Haunting of Hill House is often cited as the archetypal 20th-century ghost story. Even scaremonger-in-chief Stephen King regards Shirley Jackson as a major influence, devoting 30 pages of his 1982 memoir Danse Macabre…

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The Missing Family by Tim Weaver

The Dead Friend Project by Joanna Wallace

The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

Bay of Thieves by Megan Davis

The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater

What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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