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The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

16 June, 2026

Translated by Kristian London — Finnish-born writer Satu Rämö has lived in Iceland for 20 years and won the 2025 Petrona Award for The Clues in the Fjord, the debut in her Hildur series. In the fourth of the series, she returns with a dark…

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Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

By Erin Britton

5 June, 2026

Set against the volatile backdrop of Rome, Toni Viola’s Make Thick My Blood blends procedural investigation, political intrigue and personal reckoning into a thriller that is as interested in the moral pressures placed on its characters as it is in solving a crime. As a…

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Body of Lies by Jo Callaghan

By DeathBecomesHer

3 June, 2026

DCS Kat Frank and her artificially intelligent sidekick AIDE Lock were first introduced to the crime fiction-loving public in In the Blink of an Eye, in January 2023. Since then, AI has infiltrated just about every part of life and not always for the good….

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Ironwood by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

22 May, 2026

If ever a book opened with a bang, it’s Michael Connelly’s latest, Ironwood, featuring Detective Stilwell and set on Catalina island, off the coast of California. This is the second in the series, and it’s released a year after we first met Stil, in Nightshade….

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Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

7 May, 2026

Astronaut! is a satirical police procedural and coming-of-age story set in the final months of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship in 1989 Romania. At the centre of the story are Constantin, a weary police detective, and Lia, a rebellious schoolgirl. Both have to navigate their daily lives…

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The Long Dark by Andrew Raymond

By Chris Connor

24 April, 2026

The likes of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Denise Mina have become household names and figureheads for Scottish crime fiction. One of the latest to join this crew is Andrew Raymond, whose DCI John Lomond series, set in Glasgow, has built a dedicated readership, which…

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Phantom Pass by André M Louw

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

18 April, 2026

South African author André M Louw makes a notable entrance to the crime genre with a debut that balances fully fleshed-out characters with a breakneck pace. The story commences with the discovery of Mark Whitcombe, a prominent 67-year-old retired lawyer whose mutilated corpse is found…

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The Drowning Place by Sarah Hilary

By DeathBecomesHer

15 April, 2026

Sarah Hilary’s heady mix of razor-sharp characterisation and 4K-ready sense of place have stood her in good stead since 2014, when she debuted with Someone Else’s Skin and in the process introduced London-based DI Marnie Rome to crime fiction lovers. We reviewed that first novel…

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The Secrets from the Deep by Satu Rämö

Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

Body of Lies by Jo Callaghan

Ironwood by Michael Connelly

Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

The Long Dark by Andrew Raymond

Phantom Pass by André M Louw

The Drowning Place by Sarah Hilary

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