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The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

4 April, 2024

A new Stuart Turton novel is always met with great anticipation and high expectations. The author, who frequently draws inspiration from Golden Age crime fiction, is undoubtedly skilled at crafting original mysteries. In his latest high-concept thriller he creates an entirely fictitious and post-apocalyptic setting…

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Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin

By Erin Britton

6 December, 2023

Travel back in time to the Golden Age of Murder this Christmas with Joan Coggin’s fiendishly humorous Who Killed the Curate? Originally published in 1944 and set in 1937, it introduces the scatterbrained and remarkably good-natured Lady Lupin Lorimer Hastings, an unlikely amateur sleuth who…

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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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How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson

By Erin Britton

12 July, 2023

Would you survive a murder mystery? Particularly one from the Golden Age of Crime, when fair play, amateur sleuths, closed circles of suspects and logic and deduction were the rules of the game? The answer’s far from certain, but if you arm yourself with as…

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Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 June, 2023

Canadian author Christopher Huang’s new crime caper might not have the brutal one-liners of Succession, but it does have an unscrupulous patriarch who takes pleasure in manipulating and pitting his three children against one another – even after his death. April 1921: Sir Lawrence Linwood…

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Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston

By Erin Britton

24 May, 2023

Horace Manning is a sinister madman. He is also a scientific genius. This combination of characteristics provides an indication of danger from the outset of Billie Houston’s Twice Round the Clock, although surprisingly, despite an atmosphere of evil hanging around him like a fog of…

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 September, 2022

The Cunninghams are having a little family get-together at Sky Lodge, a snowbound mountain retreat in Australia, the perfect setting for mulled wine and murder. If your first thought is that this is one of those stories where a group of people get snowed in…

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Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 August, 2022

Debut author Tom Mead is receiving considerable publicity for his historical mystery Death and the Conjuror. The story takes place in 1936 London, with its lead characters the elderly showman and conjuror Joseph Spector and Scotland Yard detective George Flint. Flint hopes Spector’s skills at…

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The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

Who Killed the Curate? by Joan Coggin

Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night by Sophie Hannah

How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson

Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang

Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Death and the Conjuror by Tom Mead

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