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Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2025

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There’s an embarrassment of riches when you’re asked to look back on a year’s worth of crime the thriller fiction. Authors are rising to the moment and creating stories that resonate with today’s world. Some involve the worst aspects of ubiquitous technology (ubiquity being one…
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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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On the Radar: The stars are out

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The stars of crime fiction are out this week here in our new books column. Michael Connelly, Sophie Hannah, Val McDermid and Vaseem Khan are all names dedicated crime fiction lovers are aware of. And in JK Flynn and Nick Kolakowski, two of our favourite…
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