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Holy F*ck by Joseph Incardona

By RoughJustice

27 April, 2026

Translated by Sam Taylor — It’s an adage that sometimes a blessing can be a curse. That’s certainly the case for 19-year-old Stella Thibodeaux, who has been taken under the wing of an elderly fortune teller working in a Georgia carnival. Santa Muerte quickly recognised…

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Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

4 November, 2021

Will Carver’s writing is like tequila, or Marmite, perhaps. He produces a hot and abrasive brand of crime fiction that makes readers uncomfortable. For some this is delectable and it leaves you wanting more. For others, the approach is… challenging. If you dare to read…

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A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 April, 2021

Narrated by Gerry O’Brien — A Galway Epiphany is the 17th novel in award-winning Irish author Ken Bruen’s long-running series involving former Garda detective Jack Taylor. Now a private investigator, he has had a haphazard career since being thrown off the force for excessive drinking…

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A guide to John Connolly's Charlie Parker

By DavidPrestidge

9 April, 2018

Charlie Parker was introduced to the crime fiction world in May 1999 with Every Dead Thing. It won a Shamus Award for best debut novel, and was also the LA Times Book of the Year. Parker is the creation of John Connolly, a Dublin-based author…

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The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths

By DavidPrestidge

31 January, 2016

Walsingham, deep in rural Norfolk, is a curious place. In Jim Kelly’s Death on Demand, for instance, its religious history attracts both serious Christian pilgrims and obscure extremists. Elly Griffiths uses this unusual setting as well, in her new novel The Woman in Blue. A…

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Midnight Sun

By DavidPrestidge

5 January, 2016

Midnight Sun is follows Blood on Snow, and sees another hitman on the run from mobsters. Jon Hansen has escaped Oslo and finds himself hiding out in a tiny community in the far north of Norway where he’s helped by a 10-year-old called Knut and his…

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Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

By crimefictionlover

5 November, 2015

Translated by Neil Smith — Well known for his bestselling Harry Hole novels, Jo Nesbo has led his fans down a new avenue of late. Last year’s Blood on Snow was a wonderfully gloomy piece of noir writing, set in the middle of a 1970s winter and featuring a…

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The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

By DavidPrestidge

1 May, 2015

Debut author Cal Moriarty was discovered after taking a course at the Faber Academy, and the publisher now has a fine writer on its hands who can weave a tale full of surprises and twists. Set in the early 1980s, the story begins when Bobbi Lomax is…

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Holy F*ck by Joseph Incardona

Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver

A Galway Epiphany by Ken Bruen audiobook

A guide to John Connolly's Charlie Parker

The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths

Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun by Jo Nesbo

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

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