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Better The Blood by Michael Bennett

By RoughJustice

31 August, 2022

Better the Blood begins with a prologue set 150 years ago depicting a violent act of colonisation. Six soldiers are celebrating the capture and killing of a Maori chief by having their picture taken alongside his hanging corpse. The picture serves as inspiration for the…

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The Damned Lovely by Adam Frost

By Paul Burke

16 August, 2022

This contemporary noir novel takes a few pages to settle into, even if you’re familiar with the Cali hardboiled lingo it’s not easy to follow but persevere and it’s well worth it. Adam Frost has a distinctive voice, his narrator is a fascinating character and…

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The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi

By Paul Burke

14 July, 2022

Translated by Katherine Gregor — Hot on the heels of The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler comes a very different but equally chilling serial killer thriller from Italian maestro Donato Carrisi. It’s a decade since his debut, The Whisperer, which terrified readers across the continent….

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The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2022

Translated by Alice Menzies — The key to a really good serial killer thriller is a dark foreboding atmosphere and this novel has it in abundance. When you read The Mirror Man you feel the temperature plummet. The bestselling Swedish writing duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril…

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Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

By Paul Burke

26 April, 2022

Unlucky for some, 13 could be a good number for therecently married writing duo of Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter as they publish their 13th novel together. Say Her Name is an absorbing psychological thriller with a bit of a family history angle to…

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The doctor will see you now... Sam Holland and AJ Finn

By DeathBecomesHer

24 April, 2022

Dr Jacky Collins breaks new ground with her latest edition of the Doctor Will See You Now video interview series. Firstly, Doctor Noir tackles a double dose of authors, and secondly, both of the writers featured bring their dogs along for the ride. Meet Max…

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After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden

By DeathBecomesHer

19 April, 2022

Crime fiction land is awash with whodunnits, but whydunnits are a little thinner on the ground. Time to swell those sparse ranks with this gripping and original debut novel by Manchester author Stephanie Sowden. The setting couldn’t be much further away from Sowden’s home city…

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Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

6 April, 2022

In the third novel in Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series, our protagonist and her colleague, Tim Wellington, are called out to Wolfe Island, Ontario, where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found at the base of a wind turbine at a wind farm…

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Better The Blood by Michael Bennett

The Damned Lovely by Adam Frost

The Whisperer’s Game by Donato Carrisi

The Mirror Man by Lars Kepler

Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

The doctor will see you now... Sam Holland and AJ Finn

After Everything You Did by Stephanie Sowden

Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert

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