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The Innocents by Bridget Walsh

By Vicki Weisfeld

28 March, 2024

This is the second novel in the entertaining historical mystery series Bridget Walsh launched last year with The Tumbling Girl. The stories are set in Victorian London, in a particular world we less often read about – a music hall called the Variety Palace. The…

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I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson

By Sharon Richardson

28 December, 2023

Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson are highly regarded Canadian humorists – Leacock Award winners, no less – who now and again joins forces to pen books like How to be a Canadian. Now they’ve turned their satirical eye on cosy crime fiction with a short…

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The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

25 October, 2023

It’s early December 2022 and the Fairway Players are rehearsing for their latest command performance: a one-night-only production of Jack and the Beanstalk in aid of the local church’s roof repair fund. The parts have been cast, the props procured and the set staged, and…

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The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

By crimefictionlover

18 August, 2022

Book four in Anthony Horowitz’s clever Hawthorne series feels like a non-starter. It begins with Horowitz, who is not only the narrator but is an active participant in the story, telling Daniel Hawthorne that he’s not interested in writing another book about the former Metropolitan…

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I am Dust by Louise Beech

By DeathBecomesHer

16 April, 2020

The work of Hull-based author Louise Beech is really difficult to categorise. This is a writer who isn’t constrained by genre and her free-flowing style is all the better for it. You won’t find all of her work in the crime section at the book…

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Crime fiction improv hits Melbourne

By DeathBecomesHer

31 August, 2018

If you’re in Melbourne, Australia in mid-September, it’d be a crime not to catch up with the city’s Fringe Festival, which this year includes Murder Village, an improve entertainment act who will be creating original whodunits throughout a week-long engagement. This comedic murder mystery will…

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Spur of the Moment by David Linzee

By DavidPrestidge

5 April, 2016

Opera mysteries are a rare thing but St Louis author David Linzee hopes to tap a narrow-but-deep cross-over of interests with his first Renata Radleigh book. Renata is an English opera singer currently employed by the St Louis Opera to sing the relatively minor role…

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Roy Grace makes theatrical debut

By DeathBecomesHer

4 February, 2015

Crime-based drama has been packing them in to theatres worldwide for decades. However, while classics of the Agatha Christie ilk are common, it’s a little less usual for more contemporary novels to appear on the boards. Currently on a UK tour is a stage treatment…

Crime Fiction Lover

The Innocents by Bridget Walsh

I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz

I am Dust by Louise Beech

Crime fiction improv hits Melbourne

Spur of the Moment by David Linzee

Roy Grace makes theatrical debut

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