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Your complete guide to Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club

By Erin Britton

20 March, 2026

In the retirement community of Coopers Chase, nestled in the quiet Kent countryside, four unlikely detectives gather once a week to discuss cold cases. But what begins as a hobby soon turns into something far more exciting when real murders start happening on their doorstep….

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Sphinx: the new crime show from the Netherlands

By crimefictionlover

13 March, 2026

Following closely on the heels of the French crime show The Eclipse, Channel 4 and Walter Presents have announced that the dark Dutch production Sphinx is coming with English subtitles. It too centres on the disappearance of a teenage girl but has a much creepier…

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Greedy by Callie Kazumi

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

12 March, 2026

Ed Cook is a British immigrant living in Tokyo with his Japanese wife, Sayuri, and their toddler daughter, Kaori. Having been unemployed for six months, Ed spends his days in illegal pachinko parlours or betting on horses. He has squandered their savings and his daughter’s…

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Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 March, 2026

Catriona Ward’s new thriller, Nowhere Burning, might be hard to classify but will appeal to crime fiction lovers who like the dark side – a little gothic horror mixed with suspense. The story involves three main sets of characters in three time periods who for…

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Five of the best cosy Mother's Day crime novels

By Erin Britton

10 March, 2026

What’s the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Well, you know what we’re going to say, don’t you? It’s got to be a cosy crime novel. And, when we looked into it, we discovered there are actually several such books that focus on Mother’s Day itself… While…

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The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood

By Erin Britton

4 March, 2026

Wife of Esau successfully queues, one might say (6,5). As every cruciverbalist worth their salt knows, the answer to this and several other puzzles is ‘Judith Potts’, although extrapolating the how and why from the who is generally more complex than even the most cryptic…

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She Knew Too Much by Victoria Weisfeld

By Paul Burke

3 March, 2026

Full disclosure: Vicki Weisfeld is one of our contributors so you could say that there is a conflict of interest here. On the other hand, how mean would it be not to review her book on the site? So read on to find out more…

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What Happened That Night by Nicci French

By DeathBecomesHer

13 February, 2026

Husband and wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French are probably best known for their series of books featuring psychotherapist Frieda Klein, but in recent years they’ve been gradually building up a new collection, with DI Maud O’Connor as the strangely not-quite-central character. Maud…

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Your complete guide to Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club

Sphinx: the new crime show from the Netherlands

Greedy by Callie Kazumi

Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

Five of the best cosy Mother's Day crime novels

The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood

She Knew Too Much by Victoria Weisfeld

What Happened That Night by Nicci French

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