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The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

20 March, 2025

Belinda Bauer is a British crime author with a reputation for writing high quality mysteries driven by unique ideas. This is why her past novels Blacklands (2009), Rubbernecker (2013) and Snap (2018) won four major awards between them, with the latter longlisted for the Man…

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Interview: Simon McCleave

By crimefictionlover

20 February, 2025

Over the last five years, independent author Simon McCleave has become one of the UK’s most popular crime writers. Certainly, part of the popularity of his books has been their unique setting. Instead of more stories set in London, New York or LA, Simon lets…

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The Case of the Bereaved Butler by Cathy Ace

By Erin Britton

22 April, 2024

The women of the WISE Enquiries Agency, Wales’s premier private detectives, face a busy summer of sleuthing in The Case of the Bereaved Butler. It marks the ninth outing for Cathy Ace’s intrepid female investigators, who are once again faced with a plethora of complex…

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The Sixth Lie by Sarah Ward

By DeathBecomesHer

6 November, 2023

Settings can be familiar, like an old friend, but there’s an extra frisson thrown into the mix when a book is rooted in a place that’s unknown. Doesn’t matter whether the location is exotic or more run of the mill, if the author knows their…

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Lies After Death by KJ Dando

By crimefictionlover

9 October, 2023

Lies After Death is a crime debut for KJ Dando, someone who has had various jobs and has served in the British Army in the Balkans and Iraq. It’s this army background that seems to funnel into his first novel the most. His main character,…

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The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward

By Paul Burke

11 April, 2023

Thanks to writers like Sarah Ward, Wales is finally making its mark in crime fiction as a principality distinct from England. Welsh locations from north to south are appearing in novels by Clare Mackintosh, Simon McCleave, Harry Bingham and many more, and there are top…

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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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Killing Evil by John Nicholl

By crimefictionlover

5 September, 2021

After working for the police and in child protection, John Nicholl became a crime author and Killing Evil is his 14th psychological thriller. The difficult issues he dealt with in his previous career come to the fore and inform the story in Killing Evil. It’s…

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The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

Interview: Simon McCleave

The Case of the Bereaved Butler by Cathy Ace

The Sixth Lie by Sarah Ward

Lies After Death by KJ Dando

The Birthday Girl by Sarah Ward

The Case of the Cursed Cottage by Cathy Ace

Killing Evil by John Nicholl

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