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The Bone Mother by Suzy Aspley

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In 2024, The Crow Moon was an intriguing debut by British author Suzy Aspley and The Bone Mother is its sequel. Both books are gothic mysteries featuring Martha Strangeways as she investigates an unusual murder. The author concepts a special blend weaving together modern murder…
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Blood Vengeance by Douglas Jackson

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The third of Douglas Jackson’s Warsaw Quartet follows Blood Roses and Blood Sacrifice and sees Polish investigator Jan Kalisz taken from occupied Warsaw and dropped in to northern Scotland at the orders of Winston Churchill himself. Krystina Kowolska, resistance agent and a mionor member of…
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Silent Bones by Val McDermid

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Opening one of Val McDermid’s police procedurals – especially those featuring Police Scotland’s Karen Pirie and her dedicated team in the Historic Cases Unit – is like being driven to a rewarding destination in a luxury limo. Everything works flawlessly, with no plot holes or…
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Small Fires by Ronnie Turner

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Folk horror. Gothic thriller. Crime novel, a bit, maybe. You can’t readily pigeonhole Small Fires, but what you can say is that this is a remarkable work of the imagination. Just as the likes of William Blake and JRR Tolkien envisaged strange, distant realms and…
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