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Meet the Author: Mona Marple

For most people, what you feel at Christmastime and what you feel when there’s been a murder lie at the opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. Perhaps here at Crime Fiction Lover we’re not quite normal because we have no mixed feelings at all, at…
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Five festive thrillers for Christmas 2025

While cosy crime may appear to have captured the Christmas market, there are actually a host of seasonal thrillers for those who prefer their holiday reading to feature a bit more bloody murder and mayhem. If that sounds like your festive cup of tea, check…
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Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

This year’s festive addition to the British Library Crime Classics series is Susan Gilruth’s Death in Ambush, which was first published in 1952. It is a Christmas-set mystery, yes, but one less about seasonal cheer and more about the tensions, hypocrisies and secrets that lie…
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The Christmas Clue by Nicola Upson

Christmas Eve, 1943. Bored and depressed at spending the War working in a Birmingham munitions factory, Anthony Pratt looks forward to finishing his nightshift and then travelling with wife Elva to the Tudor Close Hotel in Rottingdean, a village outside Brighton. Before World War II,…
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