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The Red Door season 2: Noir Italiano on Walter Presents

12 September, 2023

Who better to investigate a murder than a murder victim, right? That’s the concept behind the Italian crime show The Red Door – La Porta Rossa – and it’s a good one. In the UK, Channel 4’s foreign crime show streaming service Walter Presents has…

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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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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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The Case of the Cursed Cottage by Cathy Ace

By Erin Britton

27 February, 2023

Cathy Ace’s WISE women return to tackle another set of perplexing puzzles in The Case of the Cursed Cottage, the seventh book in the WISE Enquiries Agency cosy mystery series. The indomitable band of sleuths have previously tackled disappearing corpses, strange shenanigans in a bookshop,…

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Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

2 October, 2022

British author Guy Morpuss was a barrister and QC, and saw some unusual cases during his 30-year legal career, but certainly none so strange as the one he crafts in Black Lake Manor. His second novel after Five Minds, it’s a dark, complex mystery, set…

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The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

By RoughJustice

2 August, 2022

Texan author Gabino Iglesias’ two previous novels, Coyote Songs and Zero Saints, earned him an enviable reputation for being able to blend genres. Writers who can pull this off successfully – like Elizabeth Hand, Laird Barron and Cynthia Pelayo – manage to meet readers’ expectations…

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Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

19 July, 2022

Maine-based author Elizabeth Hand writes widely across the crime fiction and dark fantasy genres. With her crime novels we’ve grown used to cold climate settings, and the Cass Neary series has taken readers from New England to Iceland, across the UK and over to Sweden….

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Hide by Kiersten White

By RoughJustice

7 June, 2022

Out in the middle of the desert exists an abandoned amusement park with a terrible hidden history. Fourteen young adults, desperate for fame or money, have signed up to try and win a $50,000 contest. If they spend a week in the park without getting…

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The Red Door season 2: Noir Italiano on Walter Presents

The Clearing by Simon Toyne

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

The Case of the Cursed Cottage by Cathy Ace

Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss

The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand

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