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The Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace by RWR McDonald

By DeathBecomesHer

26 November, 2025

If your love for crime fiction began at an early age, it’s a fair bet that it started with the likes of The Famous Five, The Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. The same applies to Tippy Chan, the 11-year-old heroine of RWR McDonald’s award winning…

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The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah

By Erin Britton

7 November, 2025

The New Year generally begins with fireworks rather than fatalities, but the stroke of midnight signals suspicion instead of celebration in Sophie Hannah’s The Last Death of the Year. The sixth novel chronicling the return of Hercule Poirot – which by necessity takes place before…

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Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle

By Erin Britton

23 October, 2025

KJ Whittle’s debut novel, Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests, is a psychological mystery that balances the intrigue of a traditional whodunnit with the moral uncertainty of a contemporary character study. The puzzle begins when seven strangers are invited to a dinner party at…

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The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

21 October, 2025

Crime pays, especially true crime. Seeking to cash in on the macabre boom in interest in all things criminal, Dominic Eastwood approaches a contact at Netflix about making a documentary series concerning the peculiar events that befell his aunt and uncle, Sue and Mal Eastwood,…

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Poppy Plays Fair by Leigh Russell

By Erin Britton

23 July, 2025

Roll up! Roll up! The annual summer fair has arrived in Ashton Mead, bringing with it the customary mayhem, mistrust… and murder? While many villagers complain about the crowds of townies the fair draws in, to say nothing of the litter, vandalism and petty crime,…

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A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

By DeathBecomesHer

14 July, 2025

We crime fiction lovers do enjoy a good book festival – but for all the cloak and dagger and fake crime scene tape that abound there, I don’t imagine that many of us have actually discovered an honest-to-goodness murder victim at one. That dubious pleasure…

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Strange Houses by Uketsu

By Erin Britton

7 July, 2025

Translated by Jim Rion — In January, we reviewed Strange Pictures by surrealist Japanese YouTuber and dapper mask-wearer Uketsu. That was the author’s second novel, and now his debut, Strange Houses, has also been translated into English. Focusing on the disturbing hidden meanings that can…

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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 Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace by RWR McDonald

The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah

Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle

The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

Poppy Plays Fair by Leigh Russell

A Novel Murder by EC Nevin

Strange Houses by Uketsu

Helle’s Hound by Oskar Jensen

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