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Interview: Dandy Smith

16 January, 2025

We love a good crime story, and we also love success stories that involve new crime authors. Based near Bath in Somerset, Dandy Smith has wanted to be a writer since childhood, she studied for two degrees in writing, honed her skills in fantasy and…

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An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

By DeathBecomesHer

10 January, 2025

Last year I read and reviewed Here One Minute by Liane Moriarty, and it changed my attitude to flying. The book’s central character is an elderly woman who stands up on a flight between Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, Australia and proceeds to tell each of…

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Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

By DeathBecomesHer

20 December, 2024

In a world populated by off-kilter characters, it takes a certain something to make a protagonist memorable for a crime fiction reader. For me there are just a handful that stick out – Elizabeth in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing, for example; Liz Nugent’s Strange…

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The Ice Retreat by Ruth Kelly

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

13 December, 2024

Welcome to The Ice Retreat, a wellness resort located 3,200 metres above sea level on the summit of Mount Turin in the Swiss Alps with breathtaking views over the Lauterbrunnen valley. Here, a three-day healing and cleanse session will cure all forms of pain through…

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The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 October, 2024

How you feel about puzzles will likely colour your reaction to this new thriller from Danielle Trussoni. It’s a follow-on to her well-received book from last year, The Puzzle Master. I love puzzles, and at first I believed I’d found the perfect read. Mike Brink…

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House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

By RoughJustice

8 October, 2024

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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Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 September, 2024

Although author Lauren Ling Brown is at pains to make clear that her new thriller Society of Lies doesn’t reflect either real characters or social groups at Princeton University, where she did her undergraduate work, she does a nice job recreating much of the local…

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The Examiner by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

28 August, 2024

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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Interview: Dandy Smith

An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

The Ice Retreat by Ruth Kelly

The Puzzle Box by Danielle Trussoni

House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown

The Examiner by Janice Hallett

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