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Somebody's Daughter by Carol Wyer

By DeathBecomesHer

2 July, 2020

Can it be just three years since award-winning romantic comedy novelist Carol Wyer turned her attention to crime fiction? Since then, she’s written 11 well-received books and now she’s back with her 12th. Somebody’s Daughter is number seven in the series featuring Natalie Ward and…

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Deep as Death by Katja Ivar

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 June, 2020

In this second book by Katja Ivar featuring investigator Hella Mauzer, it’s February 1953 in Helsinki, Finland, and someone believes that this cold, dark, snowy period is a propitious time to continue a nasty habit of murdering prostitutes. In the region there’s no shortage of…

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Cold Malice by Quentin Bates

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 June, 2020

It’s been less than two years since we’ve heard from Officer Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the Serious Crime Unit in Reykjavik. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. On average, Quentin Bates has written a novel almost annually since 2011. Considering he also translates Ragnar Jonasson and…

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The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

10 June, 2020

Translated by Saskia Vogel — Most readers will know Håkan Nesser for his popular and widely read Inspector van Veeteren series set in the fictional city of Maardam. Nesser didn’t set the series in Sweden because he loathes the stereotypical depressed characters and dark and…

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Little Altar Boy by John Guzlowski

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 June, 2020

John Guzlowski’s riveting new police procedural takes you back to the time before sustained pressure on the Catholic Church brought to light its widespread and systemic problem of child sexual abuse. The victims’ quest for justice has taken years to play out and is ongoing,…

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Snog, Marry, Murder by Zac Colbert

By nagaisayonara

26 May, 2020

Snog Marry Murder by Zac Colbert is a short punch of a crime novella that doesn’t take itself seriously, by an author who knows a lot about the occasionally overlapping worlds of crime fiction and television. And we should know because, full disclosure, he used…

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The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 May, 2020

Translated by Victoria Cribb — The Mist completes – or starts, depending on how you read it – Ragnar Jonasson’s Hidden Iceland series. The first in the series, The Darkness, introduced us to Hulda Hermansdottir, a police detective on the verge of retiring from the…

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Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 May, 2020

Steph Cha has created a timely and unforgettable story about crime, injustice and the collision of two Los Angeles cultures, not written in abstract terms, but in the painful impact the conflict has on multiple generations of two families – one black and one Korean….

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Somebody's Daughter by Carol Wyer

Deep as Death by Katja Ivar

Cold Malice by Quentin Bates

The Summer of Kim Novak by Håkan Nesser

Little Altar Boy by John Guzlowski

Snog, Marry, Murder by Zac Colbert

The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

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