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The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

20 January, 2022

After exposing the machinations within an amateur dramatics group in her bestselling debut novel The Appeal, Janice Hallett turns her attention to the sinister side of classic children’s literature in The Twyford Code. While Hallett revamped the epistolary novel format with The Appeal by telling…

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Find Her First by Emma Christie

By Vicki Weisfeld

18 January, 2022

Former newspaper journalist Emma Christie is a crime author whose reputation is growing. Her first novel, The Silent Daughter, was close to winning a number of awards in 2021 and her second, Find Her First, is another wonderful read. It can be described as a…

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The Devil's Line by Marrisse Whittaker

By DeathBecomesHer

6 January, 2022

If gritty police procedurals are your crime fiction fix, then maybe it’s time to add Marrisse Whittaker to that ever-growing list of authors to explore. Set in the North East of England, The Devil’s Line is her follow up to The Magpie, which was shortlisted…

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Perilous Gambit by Kevin G Chapman

By DeathBecomesHer

7 December, 2021

Detectives Mike Stoneman and Jason Dickson are as New York as a hot pastrami bagel, but one of the great things about Kevin G Chapman’s series of books featuring the pair is that they tend to get about a bit. In Lethal Voyage, we had…

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The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

10 November, 2021

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love a clever book title, and this one is a case in point. At first glance it seems all too obvious – after all, the main protagonist, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard, is on permanent night duty, working the graveyard…

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Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

4 November, 2021

Will Carver’s writing is like tequila, or Marmite, perhaps. He produces a hot and abrasive brand of crime fiction that makes readers uncomfortable. For some this is delectable and it leaves you wanting more. For others, the approach is… challenging. If you dare to read…

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Blood Like Rain by Albert Tucher

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 October, 2021

Albert Tucher creates a tropical getaway between covers in his series of Big Island Mysteries, indelibly drawing his characters from the diverse culture of the Hawaiian Islands. We’ve previously reviewed The Place of Refuge. His protagonist, Hawai`i County police detective Errol Coutinho, has his hands…

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The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen

By crimefictionlover

22 October, 2021

Translated by David Hackston — The Man Who Died, Palm Beach Finland, Little Siberia… Antti Tuomainen’s books have quirky titles and the slightly surreal sense of humour that they suggest continues inside each of them. Now we have The Rabbit Factor, with its lurid orange…

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The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

Find Her First by Emma Christie

The Devil's Line by Marrisse Whittaker

Perilous Gambit by Kevin G Chapman

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver

Blood Like Rain by Albert Tucher

The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen

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