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Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

By DeathBecomesHer

9 October, 2024

From the days of reading fairy tales, we’ve been conditioned to mistrust the solitary old lady. Think Red Riding Hood’s grandma, Snow White’s stepmother or even Baba Yaga… You have been warned! Which brings us to Cherry Lockwood, a nondescript elderly woman who makes no…

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Last Night at Villa Lucia by Simon McCleave

By Vicki Weisfeld

8 August, 2024

What could be more appealing than a murder mystery set in an elegant villa high on a hill overlooking the Tuscan countryside? Prolific crime novelist Simon McCleave’s Last Night at Villa Lucia feels like a vacation from the first page, as the villa’s English owner…

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Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary

By DeathBecomesHer

7 July, 2024

Since bringing her award-winning police procedural series featuring DI Marnie Rome to an end, English author Sarah Hilary has turned her attention to writing standalone works, like last year’s Black Thorn which won a five star review on this site. This is a writer who…

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Bay of Thieves by Megan Davis

By Paul Burke

18 June, 2024

Megan Davis’s debut The Messenger in 2023 was a powerful blend of conspiracy thriller and psychological drama. Building on some themes in that novel, the abuse of power and wealth are to the front again in Bay of Thieves – a financial thriller right on…

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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 June, 2024

From the first pages of Rachel Howzell Hall’s new psychological thriller, What Fire Brings, Bailey Meadows puts herself in a situation fraught with deception. This young black woman has finagled a writing internship with noted thriller author Jack Beckham, but she isn’t a writer. She’s…

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A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By Dave Bradley

10 June, 2024

When most people think of Shirley Jackson, they think of horror. The Haunting of Hill House is often cited as the archetypal 20th-century ghost story. Even scaremonger-in-chief Stephen King regards Shirley Jackson as a major influence, devoting 30 pages of his 1982 memoir Danse Macabre…

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A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce

By DeathBecomesHer

18 April, 2024

Harriet Tyce is an author that’s new to me, but there had been quite a buzz about this book and it made the CFL list of Most Wanted Books for 2024 so I had high hopes. After bursting into the scene with her best-selling debut…

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The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

By DeathBecomesHer

4 April, 2024

Meet Dr Olivia Winter. She’s a forensic psychologist and the protagonist in The Mind of a Murderer, first in a new series by Michael Wood. Throughout her career, Olivia has travelled the world to meet serial killers, to talk to them and endeavour to get…

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Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

Last Night at Villa Lucia by Simon McCleave

Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary

Bay of Thieves by Megan Davis

What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

A classic revisited: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

A Lesson in Cruelty by Harriet Tyce

The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

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