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Ah, Edinburgh, a classically beautiful city which combines a love of the arts with some fine architecture. It’s also home to the Skelfs, possibly crime fiction’s only funeral directors-cum-private detectives. And also, it seems, Edinburgh is harbouring a wild beast… Welcome to Doug Johnstone’s decidedly different take on the world of crime writing. The Great
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Summer is here in the Northern Hemisphere so maybe you’re looking for a thriller to read on your holidays, or perhaps just as you sit in the garden waiting for lockdown measures to be further stripped back? And those in the Southern Hemisphere might need a good book to get them through the long nights
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Sundance Now has announced the DVD release of the Canadian police procedural crime drama The Murders. The eight-episode series arrives on disc on 29 June 2021, with Jessica Lucas (Gotham, Melrose Place) playing rookie detective Kate Jameson. Jameson is a squeaky clean investigative prodigy whose father was a respected Vancouver cop. Everything in her career
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There are few things I love more than a good fairytale retelling. Stories of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White are such cultural touchpoints that they can be used to create really remarkable and compelling tales, just with the threads of a fairytale twisted around to create something new. Maybe it’s because
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Fans sprung into action when Amazon Prime announced that this will be the last season of Bosch, and petitions attracted signatures from all over the world. Such is the following for Michael Connelly’s books and these exceptional adaptations. But it was to no avail, and season seven, which begins streaming on 25 June 2021, will
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There are a lot of reasons you might search for the best new baby books in 2021. Maybe your family is expanding soon or you’re going to a baby shower and want to find the perfect new book. Extra points if you’re preparing for a book shower! Or perhaps you’re in charge of a budget
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Translated by Anna Kushner — Leonardo Padura is widely recognised as Cuba’s finest living writer and The Transparency of Time is a literary crime novel that demands your full attention. You will be richly rewarded for your efforts. Padura is a master of the slow burn and an intriguing scenario soon morphs into a thoroughly
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It’s hard to open BookTok without coming across readers gushing about A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) by Sarah J. Maas. The series, which currently boasts four full-length novels and a novella, is about powerful Fae, passionate romance, and war. Having read the books, I see the why they have inspired such a strong
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Translated by Mark Fried — Sometimes called the godfather of narco-lit, Mexican author Élmer Mendoza sets his latest book in Sinaloa state and Kiss the Detective is the fourth in the Lefty Mendieta series. Mendoza has a distinctive writing style, but for those with the patience to get the hang of it, there are definite
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Edited by Michael Koryta — Leo Tolstoy is cited as saying, “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” For the latest anthology from the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) guest editor Michael Koryta decided to test this theory and challenge the participating
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Burying the Newspaper Man is a stylish and engaging police procedural from debut novelist Curtis Ippolito, a San Diego charity worker and former journalist. This novel is in the style and spirit of California noir but is an intriguing and original piece of storytelling. The themes of revenge and child abuse are familiar but this
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This week sees the return of Laura Lippman and her novel Dream Girl is our lead book. It looks like the perfect pool-side read. Or you could read it somewhere else. Each to their own, right? The blurb reminds us a little of Stephen King’s Misery. Speaking of which, the reprint of Sara Gran’s Come
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Translated by Jamie Bulloch — Dear Child, Romy Hausmann’s debut which was published in English last year, proved to be a breath of fresh air for the stale psychological noir sub-genre of mainstream crime fiction. It subverted the tired clichés and tropes while at the same time satisfying our desire for complex plot twists, unreliable
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Many of us are dreaming of the day when we can step back on a plane and fly off into the wide blue yonder. After reading Clare Mackintosh’s latest standalone, you may find yourself having second thoughts. This award-winning author has made a name for herself with an array of standalone psychological thrillers, including her
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Journalist Anders Roslund teamed up with ex-criminal prison campaigner Börge Hellström to bring us the first Swedish detective Ewert Grens novel in 2004. Odjuret, translated as both The Beast and Pen 33, broke new ground with its realistic portrait of violence and its scathing indictment of the Swedish legal system and society’s reaction to serious
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Edited by Judy Penz Sheluk — Moonlight and Misadventure is the third short story anthology from Judy Penz Sheluk’s Superior Shores Press, and there’s lots here to like. For this collection, she’s attracted some of the best known and award-winning shorts masters from the US and Canada. Aside from the moonlight and misadventure themes of
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True Crime Story is Joseph Knox’s fourth novel. It’s his first standalone after three instalments of his urban noir series featuring Detective Constable Aidan Watts of Greater Manchester Police. The ‘true’ in the title and the ‘novel’ in the subtitle immediately establish a tension between fact and fiction and the relationship between the two is
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