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The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

17 October, 2025

Crime fiction lovers were bereft when Jimmy Perez left the Shetland stage in Wild Fire in 2018. But we’re a patient lot, and seven years later our dour detective is back, but on a different Scottish archipelago – Orkney! These days, Jimmy is happily settled…

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Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 October, 2025

Morgan Hatch’s debut thriller, Gone to Ground, is like a pyramid of Southern California crime and rich in unscrupulous invention. The story takes place mostly in an impoverished area of the East San Fernando Valley and involves the full spectrum of people struggling to get…

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Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes

By Paul Burke

8 October, 2025

Location, location, location. Sometimes, one of the things we love about a crime novel is the unique landscape of the story. It isn’t easy making a place your own but the best authors manage to do it, creating characters synonymous with where they work, like…

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He Calls By Night by SDW Hamilton

By Erin Britton

15 September, 2025

Fame is a fickle thing. Particularly when a shadowy government agency prevents credit from being given where credit is due. After the death-defying takedown of the Followers of Eden – as detailed in Blood on the Broadcast – Jacob Kincaid expected the associated series of…

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Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale

By crimefictionlover

11 September, 2025

Like Kiev and Prague, Moscow’s history stretches deep into the medieval period. At its centre is the Kremlin. Originally a fortress, it has protected not just Russia’s ruling elite but also some of its great institutions and churches over the centuries. And like so many…

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The Meaning of the Murder by Walter B Levis

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 September, 2025

Billed as a literary approach to the topic of murder, Walter B Levis’s The Meaning of the Murder has a lot of plusses and, for me, a few minuses. He avoids all the cheap-shot cop story tropes, the too-easy slotting of characters into good cop/bad…

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The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead

By Paul Burke

28 August, 2025

The influence of Golden Age mysteries on modern crime fiction is huge. Readers simply cannot get enough of the closed-circle murder mystery and the locked-room puzzle – archetypes handed down from Agatha Christie and John Dixon Carr through generations of writers to the new kids…

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The Cut Throat Trial by SJ Fleet

By DeathBecomesHer

26 August, 2025

Best known as The Secret Barrister – an author with several non-fiction books under their belt – the shadowy SJ Fleet has finally arrived on the crime fiction scene with their debut The Cut Throat Trial. It’s a compelling mix of Rumpole of the Bailey…

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The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

Deadman’s Pool by Kate Rhodes

He Calls By Night by SDW Hamilton

Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale

The Meaning of the Murder by Walter B Levis

The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead

The Cut Throat Trial by SJ Fleet

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