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The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead

By Paul Burke

28 August, 2025

The influence of Golden Age mysteries on modern crime fiction is huge. Readers simply cannot get enough of the closed-circle murder mystery and the locked-room puzzle – archetypes handed down from Agatha Christie and John Dixon Carr through generations of writers to the new kids…

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Gunner by Alan Parks

By Paul Burke

21 July, 2025

Gunner is the opener for a new detective series set during World War II. As such, it delves a little deeper into the past than the author’s award-winning Harry McCoy series, which so vividly recreates 1970s Glasgow. It’s 1941 and former detective Joe Gunner is…

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The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry

By DeathBecomesHer

24 June, 2025

Crime fiction is full of well-used tropes, from alcoholic detectives to silver sleuths. Even the titles can get into a rut – remember all the ‘The Girl…’ books? On the face of it, Jane Corry‘s The Stranger in Room Six ticks many of the boxes…

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The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

By Erin Britton

4 July, 2024

It’s October 1944 and all is far from well in the Republic of Salò. As the last bastion of Fascism in Italy, the tranquil setting on the shore of Lake Garda belies the turmoil currently engulfing the seat of the German-backed puppet government. As the…

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Every Spy A Traitor by Alex Gerlis

By RoughJustice

10 June, 2024

Alex Gerlis is a veteran espionage author with three series already behind him, but with Every Spy a Traitor he launches a new series. This time it’s a classic fish out of water story, similar to those written by Eric Ambler, but with a twist….

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The War Widow by Tara Moss

By Sharon Richardson

28 February, 2024

Billie Walker does not want to accept that she is a war widow, even though it has been a couple of years since she last saw her husband. Nor does she have any intention of working as a reporter for the society pages. She enjoyed…

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The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen

By RoughJustice

21 February, 2024

Thomas Mullen made his name with the Darktown novels, set in racism-riddled 1940s Atlanta. Last year, he changed tack with a near-future sci-fi thriller called Blind Spots. With The Rumor Game he returns to mid-century America with a historical thriller set in Cambridge, Massachusetts early…

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The Murder of Anton Livius by Hansjörg Schneider

By crimefictionlover

17 July, 2023

Translated by Astrid Freuler — Following the Basel Killings and Silver Pebbles, The Murder of Anton Livius is the third novel in the Inspector Peter Hunkeler series by the Swiss playwright and author Hansjörg Schneider. Originally written in the Schweizerdeutsch dialect, the novels give crime…

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The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead

Gunner by Alan Parks

The Stranger in Room Six by Jane Corry

The Venus of Salò by Ben Pastor

Every Spy A Traitor by Alex Gerlis

The War Widow by Tara Moss

The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen

The Murder of Anton Livius by Hansjörg Schneider

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