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When Things Get Dark – Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

21 October, 2021

Edited by Ellen Datlow — In 2018, when Netflix released The Haunting of Hill House, a whole new audience was introduced to renowned American horror and mystery writer Shirley Jackson’s work. Although the series is based on one of Jackson’s six novels she was best…

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The Summoning by JP Smith

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 September, 2021

If you like your thrillers to have just a touch of the supernatural then you’ll appreciate what author JP Smith has accomplished in his new psychological thriller, The Summoning. In the nearly 18 years since her husband died on 9/11, Manhattan resident Kit Capriol has…

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The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jónasson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

12 July, 2021

Translated by Victoria Cribb — 2020 was a year of lasts for Icelandic crime writer Ragnar Jónasson. The Mist, the third in the Hidden Iceland trilogy, as well as Winterkill, the final Ari Thór novel, were released the midst of the pandemic. Instead of diving…

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The Only Good Indians audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 July, 2021

Stephen Graham Jones’s wonderful contemporary gothic tale starts with a crime, when four young Blackfeet men trespass on the part of their reservation set aside for the tribe’s elders and shoot into a herd of elk. One of the dying elk was pregnant and in…

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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 May, 2021

Narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett — Crime fiction devotees wedded to gritty reality may have trouble with the premise of this book or be put off by its link to the horror genre. Don’t be. It starts with a crime, the kind of irresponsible daredevilry four young…

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Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth

By Paul Burke

2 April, 2021

When Bad Penny Blues was published in 2009, it became a cult classic, the kind of novel other writers refer to as a landmark. If you’ve not yet discovered it this new edition, with an introduction by Greil Marcus and insightful afterword by the author,…

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Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo

By RoughJustice

18 February, 2021

Lauren Medina is a mess, but just how much of a mess this 25 year old Chicago homicide detective is will only be revealed as the novel unfolds. We first meet her at Lake Humboldt Park, where a crime has taken place. It’s quickly established…

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Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver

By crimefictionlover

18 September, 2020

With our guest reviewer, the author and pulp noir expert Paul D Brazill Emotionally battered and bruised by his most recent case, Detective Sergeant Pace leaves London behind, including his loving girlfriend and confidant Maeve, and returns to his rural hometown of Hinton Hollow –…

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When Things Get Dark – Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson

The Summoning by JP Smith

The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jónasson

The Only Good Indians audiobook

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones audiobook

Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth

Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo

Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver

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