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Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald

By DeathBecomesHer

20 May, 2020

There are times when life can become a bit of a blur in crime fiction land, with troubled police detectives, missing children and deranged serial killers all melding into one homogenous mass of evildoing. It’s at such moments that you welcome a little originality –…

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Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

By nagaisayonara

25 April, 2020

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend away for Jodie and her three friends, time away from their children, their husbands, their jobs, their whole lives back in the city. But it didn’t take long before everything started going wrong for Jodie and the…

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The Recovery of Rose Gold

By DeathBecomesHer

23 April, 2020

This intriguing and unusual debut by Stephanie Wrobel takes the mother/daughter relationship to a whole new level. Rose Gold was in her late teens before she saw her mother’s overweening protectiveness for what it really was – a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Five…

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I am Dust by Louise Beech

By DeathBecomesHer

16 April, 2020

The work of Hull-based author Louise Beech is really difficult to categorise. This is a writer who isn’t constrained by genre and her free-flowing style is all the better for it. You won’t find all of her work in the crime section at the book…

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The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman

By crimefictionlover

10 April, 2020

Visiting LA after reading a Jonathan Kellerman novel is a wonderful experience. Described in sparse but vivid prose, the city and its suburbs, strip malls and beach-side bars are such a part of his mysteries, that once you’ve read a few novels in the 35-strong…

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You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster

By DeathBecomesHer

9 April, 2020

Do you stick to reading in one genre or are there times when you like to explore something new? Crime fiction has so many tempting sub-genres, it’s easy to make a detour or two without straying too far from the usual bloodstained path. But what…

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Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 April, 2020

Elizabeth Kay’s debut domestic noir novel is an immersive journey into a friendship of some 20 years’ duration. Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since age 11, through college, through their first London jobs, and while they could finish each other’s sentences, narrator Jane doesn’t…

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Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

7 April, 2020

According to NHS statistics, postnatal depression affects more than one in 20 women within a year of giving birth. In Little Disasters, Sarah Vaughan takes on the unspoken, often stigmatised occurrence of postnatal depression and its potentially devastating effects. Liz Trenchard is senior registrar in…

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Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald

Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

The Recovery of Rose Gold

I am Dust by Louise Beech

The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman

You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster

Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay

Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan

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