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The Man Who Watched Women buy Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt

By Jeremy Megraw

14 August, 2015

Translated by Marlaine Delargy — In this suspenseful serial killer thriller, Stockholm is beset by a heatwave and a series of brutal killings of young women. The national police homicide unit, Riksmord, realises early on that the ritualistic killings are copycat crimes. They mirror perfectly the…

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Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin

By DeathBecomesHer

13 August, 2015

The Black Eyed Susans of the title are an attractive daisy-like flower and the cover as a whole is eye-catching, innocuous enough. There’s no sign of violence; this red haired girl could just be sleeping…. Lulled into a false sense of security, we begin with a…

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The Child by Sebastian Fitzek

By MarinaSofia

10 August, 2015

Translated by John Brownjohn — When it was published in Germany in 2006, Sebastian Fitzek’s debut novel Therapy knocked The Da Vinci Code off the number one spot in the bestseller charts. We’ve reviewed it here, meanwhile Fitzek has made a name for himself both in his native Germany and…

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Dark Branches by Nik Frobenius

By crimefictionlover

2 August, 2015

Translated by Frank Stewart — Nik Frobenius wrote the screenplay for Insomnia, a 1997 film in which a Swedish police detective investigating the murder of young girl in a small town in the far north of Norway begins to lose his grip on reality due…

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A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

By MarinaSofia

24 July, 2015

Nobody does dark and twisted better than Sophie Hannah, but after an inroad into Agatha Christie territory with The Monogram Murders, she seems in no hurry to get back to her crime series featuring Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse. In this contemporary standalone novel, Hannah…

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First look: A new Tony Hill book by Val McDermid

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2015

While Val McDermid has written numerous standalone crime novels, as well as the Lindsay Gordon and Kate Brannigan series, it seems to be her Dr Tony Hill books that crime fiction lovers are most hooked on. And if you’re a fan of Hill and his counterpart…

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Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell

By MarinaSofia

8 July, 2015

The appetite for domestic noir seems insatiable, so it’s not surprising that this debut novel by American writer Maggie Mitchell has been marketed as perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train. There are some similarities, but to my mind this is a much…

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The Lie

By DavidPrestidge

30 June, 2015

CL Taylor’s 2014 novel The Accident won a five star review right here on Crime Fiction Lover and its successor should appeal to those who like their mysteries spiced with a dark psychological edge. After an ill-fated trip to Nepal, which culminates in a disturbing encounter…

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The Man Who Watched Women buy Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt

Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin

The Child by Sebastian Fitzek

Dark Branches by Nik Frobenius

A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

First look: A new Tony Hill book by Val McDermid

Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell

The Lie

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