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Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley

By Erin Britton

13 October, 2026

Agatha Christie’s formidable Miss Marple has been solving crimes for generations, relying on observation, experience and an unnerving understanding of human nature. So handing her over to Lucy Foley, a writer best known for atmospheric contemporary thrillers such as The Guest List, was an interesting…

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The Honourable Member for Murder by David Weir

By Erin Britton

16 September, 2026

Politics and murder. Both involve secrets, competing agendas, carefully managed public appearances and, occasionally, people prepared to do almost anything to get what they want. In The Honourable Member for Murder, David Weir brings the two together in a debut that combines Westminster intrigue and…

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The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett

By Erin Britton

3 September, 2026

As the Fairway Players continue to prove in Janice Hallett’s sequel to The Appeal, amateur dramatics and murder are a perfect double act. Put a group of ambitious performers in a village hall, add a few bruised egos, romantic complications and questionable life choices, and…

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The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson

By Erin Britton

27 August, 2026

There are few writers more closely associated with the impossible crime than John Dickson Carr. Writing as Carter Dickson, he introduced Sir Henry Merrivale, one of the Golden Age’s most unconventional detectives, a man capable of turning even the most bewildering murder into an opportunity…

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A Fatal Legacy by Charlotte Vassell

By Erin Britton

25 August, 2026

All is not well at the Horatio Combe Institute in Priory Square, Camden, London. And it’s not just the mokomokai who are looking peaky. Owner/operator Digby Coombe-Watson – descendent of notorious colonial pilferer Horatio Coombe – has been murdered. And on a rug rumoured to…

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The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

By Erin Britton

19 August, 2026

Joanna Wallace’s debut novel, You’d Look Better as a Ghost, introduced one of the most delightfully unlikely protagonists in contemporary crime fiction: Claire, an artist, a grieving daughter and an unapologetic serial killer whose moral compass points in directions all her own. It is a…

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Graham and the Flitchcombe Murders by David Fairer

By Erin Britton

31 July, 2026

Plenty of crime novels poke affectionate fun at the genre, but few manage it so well as Graham and the Flitchcombe Murders. David Fairer’s first cosy crime novel is simultaneously an engaging village mystery, a sharp satire of modern publishing and an insightful meditation on…

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Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 July, 2026

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood — In two months’ time, an asteroid named Telo is due to hit Fukuoka, Japan, with a kinetic energy equivalent to 45 billion megatons of TNT. “It’s the end of the world as we know it,”‘ as Michael Stipe once sang….

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Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley

The Honourable Member for Murder by David Weir

The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett

The Magic-Lantern Murders by Carter Dickson

A Fatal Legacy by Charlotte Vassell

The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

Graham and the Flitchcombe Murders by David Fairer

Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki

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