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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 Poison Garden

By DeathBecomesHer

2 October, 2019

Alex Marwood has made a name for herself with her never predictable array of standalone psychological thrillers. This one is a doozy, with a cracker of an opening that pulls the reader in right from the off. We’re at the scene of a mass killing…

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The Poison Garden

By DeathBecomesHer

4 August, 2019

Written by Alex Marwood — Earlier this year I read MW Craven’s Black Summer and marvelled at the brilliance of its first chapter. Alex Marwood must have been at the same training session, because The Poison Garden also opens in spectacular fashion. PC Nita Bevan…

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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

The Poison Garden

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