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What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall

By RoughJustice

31 July, 2023

It is March 2020, the COVID pandemic has begun, and Colette ‘Coco’ Weber is about to test the validity of the truism that you can never go home again. As the prospect of the first lockdown looms large, she is reluctantly returning to her childhood…

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The Clearing by Simon Toyne

By Paul Burke

21 July, 2023

Fans of international bestseller Simon Toyne will know that he deals heavily in mood and atmosphere – the Sanctus and Solomon Creed trilogies confirmed that. Now he’s back with a follow-up to 2022’s Dark Objects, which introduced Dr Laughton Rees. The Clearing sees the return…

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Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo

By crimefictionlover

15 June, 2023

Translated by Séan Kinsella — The 13th novel in Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series should have some sort of warning on the cover. Advisory: Do Not Read After Eating. The killer in this book uses methods so horrible and heinous that it’s one of the few…

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All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

By RoughJustice

7 June, 2023

Titus Crown is the first black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia. The previous incumbent ran a corrupt, racist department that Crown swore he’d clean up when he took the job. He’s determined that his officers will operate by the book, without fear or favour, and…

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The Marnow Murders – new German crime fiction coming to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

7 June, 2023

German crime drama is returning to Channel 4’s subtitled streaming service Walter Presents with The Marnow Murders, available in the UK as a box set from 16 June 2023. Based on the novel of the same name by screenwriter Holger Karsten Schmidt, the mystery is…

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Something Bad Wrong by Eryk Pruitt

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

8 May, 2023

Screenwriter, filmmaker and bar owner Eryk Pruitt is no stranger to crime fiction that depicts the dark side of the American South, and has a growing reputation in rural noir storytelling. Something Bad Wrong is his third crime novel and was partly inspired by the…

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Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

By crimefictionlover

27 April, 2023

Help! I’m Wilder Harlow and I’m trapped in this review. Before that, my prison was more substantial and somewhat of a labyrinth, although perhaps telling you that Looking Glass Sound was like a prison is a white lie. My time in Catriona Ward‘s book depicts…

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Killing Jericho by William Hussey

By Erin Britton

26 April, 2023

William Hussey’s Killing Jericho is the thrilling introduction to a detective cut from an entirely new mould. Scott Jericho is an openly gay traveller, grew up on the fairground circuit, went to Oxford to read English literature, then worked as muscle for hire in London’s…

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What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall

The Clearing by Simon Toyne

Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo

All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

The Marnow Murders – new German crime fiction coming to Walter Presents

Something Bad Wrong by Eryk Pruitt

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

Killing Jericho by William Hussey

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