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The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood

By Paul Burke

22 July, 2024

Trevor Wood gained a legion of followers with his Jimmy Mullen trilogy, which began with The Man on the Street. His homeless protagonist got readers thinking about the way society treats its poorest people and how their vulnerability places them at risk of crime and…

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How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

By Paul Burke

13 July, 2024

You’ll want to be wary of who asks you this question at Carlyle Library. This may be a leafy small town in America, apparently quiet and uneventful, but things are not quite how they seem. Laura Sims’s second novel follows Looker, about a woman’s descent…

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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

By DeathBecomesHer

5 June, 2024

The world of crime fiction is a broad church, featuring everything from snooping grannies in sleepy rural hamlets to blood spattered serial killers, and everything in between. At the darkest end of that spectrum comes Chris Carter, whose Robert Hunter series is definitely not for…

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A classic revisited: The Silence of the Lambs

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 May, 2024

Has there ever been a more recognisable, more evil villain than Dr Hannibal Lecter? Not many of us will be able to shake the image of Anthony Hopkins’s eyes behind that facial restraint, nor the sound of his terrifying, slithering slurp. I’m also guessing that…

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Return to Blood by Michael Bennett

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

7 May, 2024

In his debut novel, Better the Blood, New Zealand crime author Michael Bennett explored the wounds and after effects of colonialism and picked up the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Novel. In this sequel, Hana Westerman, a Māori detective in the Auckland Crime Investigation…

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First look: The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

By crimefictionlover

2 May, 2024

A few weeks back one of our readers asked us on Xwitter who we would recommend for serial killer thrillers. Everyone piled in and the name that consistently came up was Chris Carter. Bloody though they may be, his books are on the money, and…

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First look: Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville

By crimefictionlover

23 April, 2024

The Northern Irish author Stuart Neville probably doesn’t get credit he deserves, but crime fiction lovers know him as one of Britain’s leading authors in the genre. A couple of years back we enjoyed his domestic noir novel The House of Ashes, and he’s written…

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The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

By DeathBecomesHer

4 April, 2024

Meet Dr Olivia Winter. She’s a forensic psychologist and the protagonist in The Mind of a Murderer, first in a new series by Michael Wood. Throughout her career, Olivia has travelled the world to meet serial killers, to talk to them and endeavour to get…

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The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

A classic revisited: The Silence of the Lambs

Return to Blood by Michael Bennett

First look: The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

First look: Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville

The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood

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