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The End of the Sahara

By Vicki Weisfeld

7 April, 2026

Translated by Alexander E Elinson — In The End of the Sahara, a murder mystery by Saïd Khatabi, the story of who killed Algerian nightclub singer Zakia Zaghouani is slowly turned and examined from all sides like a colourfully refracting glass ball. This is the…

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An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

By Paul Burke

13 February, 2026

Translated by Gregory Dowling — A lot of Italian crime fiction in English is dark, mafia-related or snowbound. Manzini, Carlotto, de Cataldo and Roberto Saviano spring to mind. The Fruttero and Lucentini novels are different, lighter, witty, slightly eccentric and colourful but no less steeped…

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Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 November, 2025

Victoria Goldman’s new mystery-thriller Little Secrets couldn’t be set in a place more likely to make the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up. We are in HMP Panbrook in Hertfordshire, a huge, old Victorian structure that has been converted into Panbrook…

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Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 October, 2025

Word-lovers, rejoice! Susie Dent’s debut murder mystery, Guilty by Definition, thrusts a cold case right into the middle of a group of lexicographers, working in the Oxford offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary. The fictional organisation is no doubt a stand-in for the OED. The…

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Meet the author: Kit Fielding

By crimefictionlover

22 September, 2025

Kit Fielding will be a new name to most crime fiction lovers. He enters the genre with an interesting background – his family moved around a lot and when he left home and became a builder that itinerant lifestyle carried on. The mindset of a…

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Hard Rokk Murder: a mystery with its own amazing sound track

By crimefictionlover

28 August, 2025

A few weeks ago, we were telling you about a book of short stories inspired by Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell. Now, we’ve found a novel that really, truly gets into the music. Hard Rokk: Murder by Mark S Bonta came out in July…

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Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

By crimefictionlover

21 June, 2025

When it comes to metafiction in the crime genre, nobody does it better than Anthony Horowitz. His Daniel Hawthorne detective novels are brilliant, and his Magpie Murders stories have been big hit in print and on screen thanks to the BBC series. Marble Hall Murders…

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First look: Minky Woodcock - The Girl Called Cthulhu

By crimefictionlover

11 June, 2025

Watch the video: The third graphic novel in this stunning series by Cynthia von Buhler has arrived here at CFL Towers and instead of doing loads of photos and a write-up, we decided to go one better and bring you a little video about it….

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The End of the Sahara

An Enigma by the Sea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman

Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent

Meet the author: Kit Fielding

Hard Rokk Murder: a mystery with its own amazing sound track

Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

First look: Minky Woodcock - The Girl Called Cthulhu

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