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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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French Windows by Antoine Laurain

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 June, 2024

Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie — The unconventional short novel French Windows by French author Antoine Laurain proves once again that delving into another person’s psyche is tricky business. You know from the cover that the book is a murder mystery, but what is this…

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Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

By Paul Burke

29 May, 2024

The second Pacific Coast Highway mystery sees the welcome return of proto-detective Adam Zantz. His job as driver on the taxi app Lyft got him into a heap of trouble in The Last Songbird, when he needed to prove his innocence of the murder of…

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Murder Under the Sun edited by Cecily Gayford

By Erin Britton

9 May, 2024

Sun, sea, sand and slaughter. What more could a body want from a summer holiday? Well, perhaps a decent all-you-can-eat buffet, a prime pool-side position and a good book to while away the time with. Luckily, Murder Under the Sun has the latter requirement covered…

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The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 May, 2024

Here’s a new crime thriller that will upend your expectations at every turn – Steven Max Russo’s The Debt Collector. The literati say there are only two plots in all of literature: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. This…

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Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

7 May, 2024

Translated by Quentin Bates — Last year, Stella Blómkvist made their debut in English with Murder at the Residence and we discovered that the author’s identity is a mystery, even among the Icelandic writing community, which seems quite amazing. Now as second novel from this…

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The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater

What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

French Windows by Antoine Laurain

Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

Murder Under the Sun edited by Cecily Gayford

The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo

Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

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