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Past Lying by Val McDermid

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 November, 2023

Publication of a new police procedural featuring Val McDermid’s intrepid Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is something to get excited about. The streets of Edinburgh have never been so ominous – or empty – as when this story takes place in April 2020, at the…

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The Sixth Lie by Sarah Ward

By DeathBecomesHer

6 November, 2023

Settings can be familiar, like an old friend, but there’s an extra frisson thrown into the mix when a book is rooted in a place that’s unknown. Doesn’t matter whether the location is exotic or more run of the mill, if the author knows their…

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The Returned by Amanda Cassidy

By DeathBecomesHer

25 September, 2023

Irish author Amanda Cassidy is a freelance journalist and former Sky News reporter, and she certainly knows how to pull her readers into a story from the get-go. It’s the week before Christmas when a fire breaks out at the Wills family home in County…

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Vengeance by JK Flynn

By DeathBecomesHer

14 September, 2023

Fans of the police procedural should add the name of JK Flynn to their TBR list as an author to watch out for. Flynn’s debut, The Art Merchant, introduced us to DS Esther Penman, who is based in the fictional English town of Belfield and…

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The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

By DeathBecomesHer

30 August, 2023

North Devon tourist board must have been rubbing their hands with glee when Ann Cleeves announced that her new series of books featuring DI Matthew Venn was to be set in their neck of the woods – after all, look what the Vera and Shetland…

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Case Sensitive by AK Turner

By DeathBecomesHer

10 August, 2023

A mysterious knocking on the side of a canal boat provides the opening gambit in Case Sensitive, the latest book from AK Turner. A bit of flotsam? A disgruntled swan perhaps? Nope, the culprit is a body – and when the person woken by the…

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The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

By Paul Burke

8 August, 2023

The Irish author Catherine Ryan Howard won the Irish Book Award in the crime fiction category in 2021 for her novel 56 Days. One of the first books in the genre to really countenance the COVID pandemic, it was a nerve-tingling thriller exploring the intensity…

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The Last Dance by Mark Billingham

By Sharon Richardson

20 July, 2023

Author Mark Billingham has been involved in many creative endeavors over the years. In his early days, he worked as an actor and as a stand-up comedian. These days he is known primarily for his successful DI Tom Thorne series along with standalones like Rabbit…

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Past Lying by Val McDermid

The Sixth Lie by Sarah Ward

The Returned by Amanda Cassidy

Vengeance by JK Flynn

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

Case Sensitive by AK Turner

The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard

The Last Dance by Mark Billingham

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