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The Dead Ringer by Dane Bahr

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In 2024, Stag put Dane Bahr firmly on the radar of crime fiction lovers – a retro serial killer thriller that mixed violence and dread with a poignant relationship between the two older protagonists assigned to investigate the murders. It was Bahr’s second novel and…
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Six Mile Store by AM Belsey

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Six Mile Store, the engaging debut crime novella by AM Belsey, is narrated mostly by a young woman in her early 20s named Honey. The story at first appears to be almost a picaresque, as she colourfully describes her encounters with the customers of the…
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Meet the author: AM Belsey

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Sometimes, you’ve just got to write. Maybe other authors reading can relate. This is certainly how AM Belsey felt, and she’s the writer we’re going to meet today here on the site. On 19 March 2026, her debut crime novella – Six Mile Store –…
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Battle Mountain by CJ Box

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Out in the untamed Wyoming wilderness, there are only predators and prey. And Nate Romanowski is firmly in the former category in the opening pages of Battle Mountain, book 25 in CJ Box’s award-winning Joe Pickett series. He is wading, thigh deep, in freezing North…
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Interview: CJ Box

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Although the Joe Pickett series can feel a bit like a Western, with the dramatic mountains of Wyoming its constant backdrop, it really has all the crime fiction credentials you could wish for. The very first book, Open Season, won the Anthony, Mcavity, Gumshoe and…
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The Broken River by Chris Hammer

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The parched landscape of the Australian outback has provided a compelling backdrop for many a crime novel in recent years. Think of The Dry by Jane Harper, Gabriel Bergmoser’s The Hunted, or Chris Hammer’s debut, Scrublands. But there’s water aplenty in Hammer’s latest, The Broken…
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