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Kiss the Detective by Élmer Mendoza

By Vicki Weisfeld

21 June, 2021

Translated by Mark Fried — Sometimes called the godfather of narco-lit, Mexican author Élmer Mendoza sets his latest book in Sinaloa state and Kiss the Detective is the fourth in the Lefty Mendieta series. Mendoza has a distinctive writing style, but for those with the…

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Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 June, 2021

Although South African crime writing has mostly been dominated by white writers, a new generation of black writers is emerging and they’re changing the landscape of South African crime fiction with their fresh perspective. One of them is Sifiso Mzobe, a journalist from Umlazi whose…

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True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

By Rafe McGregor

10 June, 2021

True Crime Story is Joseph Knox’s fourth novel. It’s his first standalone after three instalments of his urban noir series featuring Detective Constable Aidan Watts of Greater Manchester Police. The ‘true’ in the title and the ‘novel’ in the subtitle immediately establish a tension between…

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Against the Law by David Gordon

By RoughJustice

31 May, 2021

This is the third Joe the Bouncer novel, following on from The Bouncer (2018) and The Hard Stuff (2019). Joe Brody is indeed a bouncer. But as well as working the door at a New York strip club Joe does a lot of things. His…

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Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

By Catherine Turnbull

13 May, 2021

DCI Alan Banks may have been off the telly for five years, but the books that spawned the police procedural series about the Yorkshire-based detective keep coming. Not Dark Yet is the 27th novel Peter Robinson has written for fans of this stubborn officer. Banks,…

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Blood Grove

By Rafe McGregor

13 April, 2021

Ezekiel Porterhouse Rawlins has reached a professional and personal peak by the summer of 1969 in Blood Grove, the latest novel in the series by Walter Mosley. He owns the WRENS-L detective agency, drives a 1968 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, and lives in a gated community…

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The Hunter – Italian crime show comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

7 April, 2021

Some crime shows give you a clever mystery to solve, involving interesting characters. Others take you away to an unusual, atmospheric location where, perhaps, things aren’t quite as they seem. Then there’s the kind that drop you into a situation that’s almost too difficult to…

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The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

By crimefictionlover

26 March, 2021

Crime fiction protagonists don’t need to blow the doors off like Jack Reacher, or come with brilliant minds and complex issues like just about half the detectives you can name. As Robert Goddard proves with The Fine Art of Invisible Detection, they can be utterly…

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Kiss the Detective by Élmer Mendoza

Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe

True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

Against the Law by David Gordon

Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

Blood Grove

The Hunter – Italian crime show comes to Walter Presents

The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

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