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Red River Seven by AJ Ryan

By RoughJustice

10 October, 2023

Anthony Ryan is a successful fantasy author, cleaving more towards the ‘grimdark” style of Joe Abercrombie and George RR Martin. For Red River Seven he has switched styles and written near-future dystopian novel that crosses into action thriller territory. Seven strangers wake up in a…

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Case Sensitive by AK Turner

By DeathBecomesHer

10 August, 2023

A mysterious knocking on the side of a canal boat provides the opening gambit in Case Sensitive, the latest book from AK Turner. A bit of flotsam? A disgruntled swan perhaps? Nope, the culprit is a body – and when the person woken by the…

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Unforgotten season 5 comes to PBS Masterpiece

By crimefictionlover

1 August, 2023

With its in-depth and always emotional cold case investigations, Unforgotten is one of the best crime shows to appear on UK television in recent years, and from 3 September 2023 viewers in North America will be able to enjoy the fifth series of the programme….

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The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

By Paul Burke

27 July, 2023

They say that history has been largely told by men, but over the past few years crime writers have been throwing light on a hidden past, where women have the starring roles on both sides of the law. The Housekeepers by Alex Hay is an…

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Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 July, 2023

When Mrs Joyce Newbury brings her boss, Percy Dvořáček, his morning coffee and warmed up chocolate muffin, it’s not received as positively as usual. Possibly because the British minister for personal information has a large hole in the back of his head and is quite…

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Zero Kill by MK Hill

By Paul Burke

18 July, 2023

There was a time when kickass – and we mean proper kickass – female protagonists were thin in the ground. No longer. Antony Johnson gave us Lorraine Broughton in the graphic novel Coldest City in 2012, we’ve experienced the quirky-but-extreme violence of Villanelle in Luke…

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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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Conviction by Jack Jordan

By Dave Bradley

5 July, 2023

A moral dilemma lies at the heart of Conviction. Jack Jordan’s previous book featured a surgeon choosing between saving her family or her patient. And similarly, in this latest novel, a defence lawyer must make a difficult personal choice – throw her latest court case…

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Red River Seven by AJ Ryan

Case Sensitive by AK Turner

Unforgotten season 5 comes to PBS Masterpiece

The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

Dirty Geese by Lou Gilmond

Zero Kill by MK Hill

How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson

Conviction by Jack Jordan

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