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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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Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

By Erin Britton

5 June, 2026

Set against the volatile backdrop of Rome, Toni Viola’s Make Thick My Blood blends procedural investigation, political intrigue and personal reckoning into a thriller that is as interested in the moral pressures placed on its characters as it is in solving a crime. As a…

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Body of Lies by Jo Callaghan

By DeathBecomesHer

3 June, 2026

DCS Kat Frank and her artificially intelligent sidekick AIDE Lock were first introduced to the crime fiction-loving public in In the Blink of an Eye, in January 2023. Since then, AI has infiltrated just about every part of life and not always for the good….

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Ironwood by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

22 May, 2026

If ever a book opened with a bang, it’s Michael Connelly’s latest, Ironwood, featuring Detective Stilwell and set on Catalina island, off the coast of California. This is the second in the series, and it’s released a year after we first met Stil, in Nightshade….

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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

Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

Body of Lies by Jo Callaghan

Ironwood by Michael Connelly

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