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Interview: Emma Stonex

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When The Lamplighters came out in 2021, it captivated readers with a tale full of mystery and a haunting atmosphere. Set in 1972 on the Cornish coast, the book explored the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers, and author Emma Stonex created a world readers felt…
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Edda Green by Peter Sarda

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Edda Green concludes Peter Sarda’s Hamburg Noir trilogy featuring detectives Ritter and Beck, though the pair who first appeared in One Way Ticket take a backseat here. This is very much Edda Green’s story. It’s a violent, gritty tale steeped in the left-wing politics and…
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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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Broiler by Eli Cranor

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The broiler is a breed of chicken favoured by the American poultry industry for its flesh. If you’re hatched a broiler, you’re dead meat, and the sense of fatalism hinted at in the title is something that will certainly cast its shadow across the narrative…
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