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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

By DeathBecomesHer

17 July, 2020

When the advance reader copy of a new book arrives in a fake VHS case, accompanied by a press release written on what looks like an old Blockbuster Video poster – remember them? – it’s enough to pique the interest of even the most jaded…

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Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

By DeathBecomesHer

1 June, 2020

Brother and sister team Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra are behind this debut police procedural, the first in a series featuring veteran NYPD detective Tommy Keane. He’s just over a year from retirement and should be coasting it, but after committing a breach of…

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First look: The video nasty Harrow Lake

By crimefictionlover

18 May, 2020

Here’s a nice little bit of pre-release marketing that came through from Penguin Random House recently. Instead of the usual early-proof-in-a-Jiffy, for Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis, the PR team sent out an envelope styled just like one from Blockbuster Video. Nostalgia. The book is…

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The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 April, 2020

The third RG Belsky crime thriller to feature harried Channel 10 news director Clare Carlson, The Last Scoop puts our heroine in the middle of both a puzzling murder story and the potential exposé of New York political shenanigans (spoiler alert: money is involved). Each…

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Nine Tenths of the Law by Claudia Hagadus Long

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 April, 2020

This literary crime thriller by Claudia Hagadus Long is part treasure hunt, part family story, part romance, part tragic history. Long weaves these elements together in a complicated plot through the strong voice of her story’s sympathetic narrator, Zara Persil-Pendleton. Zara and her husband Sam…

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Seven Shadows by VS Kemanis

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 April, 2020

If you’ve read any of VS Kemanis’s previous Dana Hargrove legal thrillers, you’ll be familiar with her lively, interesting cast of characters. There’s Dana, a former prosecutor, now a judge in Manhattan’s criminal court system. There’s Cheryl Hargrove, her sister, a successful actor who plays…

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The Sinner season 2 coming to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

5 November, 2019

The Sinner is a show with a rare and interesting premise. It focuses on cases where the police appear to have a dead-tight case against the culprit. In season one there were dozens of witnesses to the brutal stabbing that kicked off the storyline. With…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis

Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

First look: The video nasty Harrow Lake

The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

Nine Tenths of the Law by Claudia Hagadus Long

Seven Shadows by VS Kemanis

The Sinner season 2 coming to BBC Four

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