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Keep It in the Family by John Marrs

By Vicki Weisfeld

31 October, 2022

When John Marrs titled his new crime thriller Keep It in the Family, he meant something much darker than grandma’s chicken pot pie recipe or granddad’s precious World War II medals. When Mia and Finn buy a new fixer-upper of a house in Bedfordshire, they’re…

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Green Monsters by Nicky Shearsby

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 October, 2022

In Nicky Shearsby’s new psychological thriller Green Monsters first-person narrator Stacey Adams makes no secret of her hatred for her married older sister, Emma. Emma is a successful businesswoman, lives in a huge house with dishy husband Jason and a toddler daughter, has a designer…

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A Perfect Family by Sarah Sheridan

By DeathBecomesHer

12 September, 2022

You don’t get a more dramatic start to a crime novel than the discovery of six bodies, hanging side by side in the conservatory of a fairly run-of-the-mill Buckinghamshire family home. And they are a family, three generations of the Bryants to be precise. Was…

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The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre

By DeathBecomesHer

13 August, 2022

As much as we all love crime fiction, sometimes it can get stuck in an irritating groove. Remember when every other book had ‘Girl’ in the title? Recently there has been an onslaught of dodgy new neighbours causing havoc in quiet suburban cul-de-sacs. And as…

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Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 July, 2022

Translated by Alison Watts — If you enjoyed Riku Onda’s previous mystery translated into English, The Aosawa Murders, you’ll find many of the same attributes in her new psychological thriller, Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight. It offers that same dreamy feeling and a quality of…

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Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

1 July, 2022

Thompsonville, Colorado. 1984. A woman walks into a man’s house, fires three shots – one to the stomach, two to the chest – killing him in cold-blood. After he takes his last breath she pulls out an old Polaroid camera, takes a picture and walks…

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The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2022

Translated by Alice Menzies — The key to a really good serial killer thriller is a dark foreboding atmosphere and this novel has it in abundance. When you read The Mirror Man you feel the temperature plummet. The bestselling Swedish writing duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril…

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Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 June, 2022

Take four teenage girls with diverse personalities and backgrounds. Put them together in a New England boarding school and add some peer pressure to the mix. The end result? One dead teenager and three survivors with a secret to keep for the rest of their…

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Keep It in the Family by John Marrs

Green Monsters by Nicky Shearsby

A Perfect Family by Sarah Sheridan

The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight by Riku Onda

Beneath Cruel Waters by Jon Bassoff

The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling

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