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The Whispering Bones by Andrew Lowe

By Chris Connor

18 February, 2026

No stranger to crime and detective fiction with the Jake Sawyer series, author Andrew Lowe now brings us a compelling new duo who couldn’t be more different. The procedural mystery The Whispering Bones introduces DCI Oswald Lennox and PC Olivia Blackwood, two Met officers at…

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True Detective: Night Country coming to HBO Max and Sky Atlantic

By crimefictionlover

9 January, 2024

Set in Louisiana, the first season of True Detective, back in 2014, was too hot to handle in so many ways. Now, as the anthology series reaches its fourth season, an Arctic chill blows through and we join Jodie Foster as an Alaska cop investigating…

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Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

12 December, 2023

Translated by David Warriner — An infamous manor house on a small Swedish island. A wealthy family with secrets. A string of unexplained deaths. In the first of a new series, French crime author Johana Gustawsson, who has Nordic roots, combines elements of the traditional…

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A Death in the Parish by Richard Coles

By Erin Britton

10 July, 2023

The latest in an impressive line of crime-fighting members of the clergy, Canon Daniel Clement returns to tackle his second cosy mystery in A Death in the Parish. It’s been a few months since the disturbing events of Murder Before Evensong and life in the…

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All the Broken Girls by Linda Hurtado Bond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

5 September, 2022

Award-winning TV news anchor Linda Hurtado Bond returns with her fourth novel featuring a journalist as the main protagonist. This time, it’s Marisol ‘Mari’ Alvarez, a disgraced Cuban-American crime reporter who must stay one step ahead of a serial killer while also uncovering the truth…

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Opal Country by Chris Hammer

By Paul Burke

10 January, 2022

Gold standard Outback noir from the rich opal fields of barren northern Queensland, Australia. Chris Hammer’s new stand alone tale may well be his best writing to date and that’s saying something as it follows his engrossing and original Scrublands trilogy. Like those doorstop novels,…

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The Commandments by Óskar Gudmundsson

By crimefictionlover

9 November, 2021

Translated by Quentin Bates — You’ll be able to guess from the cover of this debut novel by Icelandic author Óskar Gudmundsson that it has a religious theme. More specifically, it’s about historic abuse in the church – a topic that has come to light…

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The Water Rituals by Eva Garcia Saenz

By RoughJustice

31 March, 2021

Translated by Nick Caistor — In August 2020, we reviewed the first novel in Eva Garcia Saenz’s White City trilogy, The Silence of the White City. Set in Vitoria, in Spain, it was about the reopening of a historic serial killer case. Now, criminal profiler…

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The Whispering Bones by Andrew Lowe

True Detective: Night Country coming to HBO Max and Sky Atlantic

Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson

A Death in the Parish by Richard Coles

All the Broken Girls by Linda Hurtado Bond

Opal Country by Chris Hammer

The Commandments by Óskar Gudmundsson

The Water Rituals by Eva Garcia Saenz

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