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Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider

By Vicki Weisfeld

15 April, 2025

Translated by Astrid Freuler — We’ve been reviewing Hansjörg Schneider’s entertaining stories about the frustrations of Peter Hunkeler, an aging and cynical detective (now retired) of the police force of Basel, Switzerland, ever since The Basel Killings was translated into English in 2021. Basel is…

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Black Water Rising by Sean Watkin

By DeathBecomesHer

15 April, 2025

It has been a popular crime fiction setting for years, thanks to the likes of Luca Veste and Kevin Sampson, and Liverpool has seen something of a renaissance lately, helped by The Responder and This City is Ours on the BBC. Time to add another…

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The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt

By RoughJustice

8 April, 2025

Chris Offutt returns with his fourth Mick Hardin novel, and once again the unwilling investigator is working the author’s beloved eastern Kentucky hills. In Code of the Hills, last year, the way was cleared for him to lead Eldridge County law enforcement. Mick’s sister, the county…

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The Masked Band by Bernard O'Keeffe

By DeathBecomesHer

7 March, 2025

Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and David Bowie walk into a bar. Could this be the first line of some convoluted joke, maybe? Well, no – because murder is a serious business, is it not? The famous fivesome in question call themselves…

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Her Sister's Killer by Mari Hannah

By Paul Burke

7 March, 2025

With Vera saying ‘ta-ra’ to viewers of ITV’s popular series based on the novels by Ann Cleeves, perhaps there’s a vacancy for a new Northeast England-based detective? While a TV series is being made based on her DCI Kate Daniels books, former probation officer Mari…

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Leo by Deon Meyer

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 March, 2025

Translated by KL Seegers — Six months ago, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido were demoted from their posts as part of Cape Town’s elite crime-fighters, The Hawks, after an incident with the corrupt State Security Agency. Reassigned to Stellenbosch, a university town about 30…

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Pele's Prerogative by Albert Tucher

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 February, 2025

Had it with wind, winter, and the dark? A Hawai`i vacation might be just what you need. Albert Tucher’s new Big Island Mystery, Pele’s Prerogative, provides plenty of local colour to make you think you’ve vacationed in that island paradise, but without jet-lag or the…

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Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

By Dave Bradley

23 January, 2025

A computer game is perhaps an unexpected addition to Crime Fiction Lover’s feature section. But Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse might just make you reach for your keyboard instead of cracking the spine on a new novel. The fourth entry in HitherYon’s Murder…

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Hunkeler’s Secret by Hansjörg Schneider

Black Water Rising by Sean Watkin

The Reluctant Sheriff by Chris Offutt

The Masked Band by Bernard O'Keeffe

Her Sister's Killer by Mari Hannah

Leo by Deon Meyer

Pele's Prerogative by Albert Tucher

Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

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