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The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

By Paul Burke

26 September, 2023

Peter Swanson has written a criminous Christmas tale? His twisted, unsettling mysteries such as The Kind Worth Killing and The Kind Worth Saving don’t bend towards sentimentality or good will for that matter. But then this novella is for people who aren’t wedded to the…

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You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace

By Erin Britton

22 September, 2023

Recent years have truly witnessed the rise of the female serial killer. Literarily speaking, anyway. From How to Kill Men and Get Away With It to My Sister the Serial Killer, How to Kill Your Family to Bad Men, women are finally breaking through the…

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The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark

By Vicki Weisfeld

18 September, 2023

Fans of the American game show The Price is Right will recognise the Plinko in the title of Martin Clark’s new legal thriller. It’s a juiced-up game not dissimilar to Pachinko, the Japanese gambling game that served as the title for the award-winning 2017 novel….

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The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

30 August, 2023

North Devon tourist board must have been rubbing their hands with glee when Ann Cleeves announced that her new series of books featuring DI Matthew Venn was to be set in their neck of the woods – after all, look what the Vera and Shetland…

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Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara

By Sharon Richardson

23 August, 2023

Canada and the United States both share a dark period of history that happened during World War II. Citizens of Japanese descent were ordered to give up their homes and businesses and sent to live in internment camps with harsh living conditions. In 2021, the…

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The Hurricane Blonde by Halley Sutton

By RoughJustice

16 August, 2023

Salma Lowe is Hollywood Royalty. Or thought perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she comes from a bona fide Hollywood dynasty, but her own star has fallen somewhat. Salma’s mother is the famous Vivienne Powell, film star and method acting guru. Vivienne…

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Like Printing Money by RA Cramblitt

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 August, 2023

You may have a pretty good guess what the wonks working after hours at 3D printing company 3Make are up to – after all, only a few inventions are likely to be Like Printing Money, the title of RA Cramblitt’s new technological crime novel. But,…

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All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins

By DeathBecomesHer

4 August, 2023

Bonnie and Clyde: a notorious pair of killers and robbers who terrorised central USA in the time of the Great Depression. Their crimes made them famous, and that fame was rekindled in the late 1960s with a movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and…

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The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace

The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara

The Hurricane Blonde by Halley Sutton

Like Printing Money by RA Cramblitt

All of Us Are Broken by Fiona Cummins

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