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The Angel of Death by Trevor Wood

28 July, 2026

The Angel of Death is Trevor Wood’s third book in his engrossing DCI Jack Parker series. It is a character-driven police procedural. Jack was diagnosed with early onset dementia in The Silent Killer. Unpleasant memories of how Alzheimers impacted his father led Jack to isolate…

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The Tailor by Tim Sullivan

By Vicki Weisfeld

21 July, 2026

DS George Cross is back! The eighth in Tim Sullivan’s entertaining series about the neurodivergent detective in the Avon and Somerset Major Crimes Unit keeps George’s reputation as a brilliant investigator and indifferent colleague wholly intact. The story begins when a man is killed on…

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The Violent Hour by James Oswald

By Chris Connor

13 July, 2026

There’s no shortage of great detective stories set in Edinburgh, of course, spearheaded by Ian Rankin’s Rebus series. Since 2012, James Oswald has steadily added to this roster with his DI Tony McLean series and The Violent Hour, the 15th to feature McLean, has arrived….

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The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani

By DeathBecomesHer

27 June, 2026

The Hollow Boys is a book that lives under a perpetual cloud. From the get go, this compelling example of Southern gothic is a darkly depressing read – but one that I found increasingly hard to let out of my clenched fingers. Forget cosy crime…

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Blood River Witch by TJ Martinson

By RoughJustice

24 June, 2026

Alicia Moore is a deputy sheriff in a small, socially conservative, deeply religious town in rural Kentucky. She’s married to Bill and has a son, Bart, in the seventh grade. She’s also the daughter of a well-respected former sheriff of the town. In short, she’s…

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Meet the author: James Ellson

By crimefictionlover

24 June, 2026

Policing is an incredibly difficult job and, often, the drama and trauma we read about in the pages of crime novels are a reflection of real life. Crime author James Ellson’s career is a case in point. Today he writes crime novels full of action…

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The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond

By DeathBecomesHer

17 June, 2026

Scottish authors have ploughed a rich crime fiction furrow over the years, with the likes of William McIlvanney, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Chris Brookmyre taking up the Tartan noir cudgel. Andrew Raymond is another one on that list with his DCI John Lomond books,…

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The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

16 June, 2026

Translated by Kristian London — Finnish-born writer Satu Rämö has lived in Iceland for 20 years and won the 2025 Petrona Award for The Clues in the Fjord, the debut in her Hildur series. In the fourth of the series, she returns with a dark…

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The Angel of Death by Trevor Wood

The Tailor by Tim Sullivan

The Violent Hour by James Oswald

The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani

Blood River Witch by TJ Martinson

Meet the author: James Ellson

The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond

The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

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