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House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

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Gabino Iglesias’s latest thriller leans quite heavily into horror, just like its Shirley Jackson Award-winning predecessor The Devil Takes You Home in 2022. This time, however, the story is noticeably less bleak, Iglesias replacing the hired killer protagonist of his previous novel with a group…
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The Examiner by Janice Hallett

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If competition in academia is typically so fierce because the stakes are so low, what will happen when the stakes are raised to murder? It’s a question every bit as thorny as the conundrums facing the venerable British institutions – amateur dramatics, children’s literature, niche…
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Correction Line by Craig Terlson

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The new edition of Canadian author Craig Terlson’s Correction Line underscores how badly off track a person can get if they just keep doing what they’re doing. The ‘correction line’ of the title refers to the late-19th century project to survey and divide the Canadian…
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The Trap by Ava Glass

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It’s great to see female protagonists front and centre in modern spy thrillers and British agent Emma Makepeace is a case in point. First appearing in The Chase in 2022, she literally hit the ground running while dodging bullets as she fought to keep herself…
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