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More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez

27 July, 2022

Katie Gutierrez’s debut novel is a story of family, secrets, trauma and the complexity of relationships, told through the eyes of two women – Dolores Rivera and Cassie Bowman. Cassie is an aspiring true crime writer, but for the moment she earns her money by…

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A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

By Paul Burke

20 July, 2022

Chick-lit cannibalism is how Chelsea G Summers describes her new dramedy thriller – and that gives you a flavour of it, the novel is a tongue-in-cheek fable. A niche sub-genre maybe, but it’s wicked funny if you have the stomach for it. Hell hath no…

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Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 July, 2022

The popular Boston Police Department duo detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles return in their 13th crime thriller, Listen to Me. It’s been five years since the previous novel in the series, I Know a Secret. There was also a TV series based…

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Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2022

Thompsonville, Colorado. 1984. A woman walks into a man’s house, fires three shots – one to the stomach, two to the chest – killing him in cold-blood. After he takes his last breath she pulls out an old Polaroid camera, takes a picture and walks…

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The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2022

Translated by Alice Menzies — The key to a really good serial killer thriller is a dark foreboding atmosphere and this novel has it in abundance. When you read The Mirror Man you feel the temperature plummet. The bestselling Swedish writing duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril…

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Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt

By RoughJustice

16 June, 2022

Chris Offutt first introduced us to his taciturn, reluctant private detective Mick Hardin in last year’s The Killing Hills. Hardin is an army CID officer who went on leave to fix his marriage. His wife, perhaps sick of his absences abroad, was pregnant with another…

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Made to be Broken by Emma Salisbury

By crimefictionlover

13 June, 2022

DS Kevin Coupland has become a mainstay in British indie crime fiction. Based in the city of Salford – part of Greater Manchester – he’s appeared in seven previous novels by Emma Salisbury. In Made to Be Broken, this cynical, sarcastic, driven detective makes his…

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The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 June, 2022

When you read Sulari Gentill’s new psychological thriller, The Woman in the Library, you may need to stop every so often and think, ‘Where am I?’ Its clever plot is like a set of nesting boxes, and you have to check which box you’re in….

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More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers

Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen

Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt

Made to be Broken by Emma Salisbury

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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