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Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

By Erin Britton

1 April, 2025

Blazing eyes? Luminous muzzle? Not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen? No, that would be another hound altogether. The shaggy dog story keeping Torben Helle awake at night concerns Mortimer, an Irish wolfhound that had long been the closest companion of Dame…

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The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha

By Sharon Richardson

12 February, 2025

Trisha Saklecha’s third book, The Inheritance is a must-read for all fans of domestic thrillers and the television series Succession. A wealthy family is gathering for a joint celebration. It is the mother and father’s 40th wedding anniversary as well as the father’s retirement. They…

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Interview: RO Thorp

By crimefictionlover

6 February, 2025

Today we meet with a fascinating new crime fiction author. Originally from Australia, RO Thorp is based in Ireland and her first novel, printed in 2021, was about the wife of King Lear. That’s intriguing in itself, but her second book and first crime novel,…

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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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The Sulphur Springs Cure by Jeffrey Round

By DeathBecomesHer

31 March, 2024

Past and present collide in Jeffrey Round’s engaging The Sulphur Springs Cure, which jumps back and forth between 2009 and 1939 as our central character, Violet McAdams recalls what happened in Sulphur Springs in the Dundas Valley in Ontario, Canada, in the last summer before…

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Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night by Sophie Hannah

By Erin Britton

15 November, 2023

Is there any better gift for mystery fans than the return of the Christie for Christmas? Of course, Dame Agatha herself can’t be expected to visit from the great beyond with a fresh manuscript in hand but Sophie Hannah has donned her literary Santa suit…

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Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicki Delany

By Erin Britton

7 November, 2023

Vicki Delany’s Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas offers a welcome return to the charmingly festive yet murder-stricken town of Rudolph, New York, where Christmas spirit runs high and malice simmers beneath the surface. The sixth instalment in the Year-Round Christmas Mystery series, it’s a…

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The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

25 October, 2023

It’s early December 2022 and the Fairway Players are rehearsing for their latest command performance: a one-night-only production of Jack and the Beanstalk in aid of the local church’s roof repair fund. The parts have been cast, the props procured and the set staged, and…

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Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha

Interview: RO Thorp

The Examiner by Janice Hallett

The Sulphur Springs Cure by Jeffrey Round

Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night by Sophie Hannah

Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas by Vicki Delany

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

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