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Memento Mori: New Spanish crime thriller on Walter Presents

By Dave Bradley

6 May, 2025

Memento Mori is a six-part series about the hunt for a serial killer in the Spanish city of Valladolid. It’s perfect viewing if you want a dark, melancholy mystery in your life right about now. Airing on Channel 4 in the UK on Sunday 11…

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Down and Out in the River City by Wm Stage

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 March, 2025

This third crime thriller by Wm Stage is a refreshing change of pace in both setting and characters, with a strong feel of gritty reality. Contemporary society’s schisms and Americans’ careless assumptions and prejudices are on full display in this well-paced thriller, which puts St…

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Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 February, 2025

Virginia Feito’s new gothic thriller, Victorian Psycho, has attracted the attention of readers and commentators not only for its originality, but for its in-your-face macabre violence. It’s graphic. It’s bloody. And in this book, the first-person narrator is the serial killer. She doesn’t murder at…

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Into Thin Air by Ørjan Karlsson

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

28 January, 2025

Translated by Ian Giles — Ørjan Karlsson’s first novel in the Arctic Murders series takes us all the way to Bodø and Røst, on the Lofoten archipelago in northwest Norway. The most prevalent form of crime here, just inside the Arctic circle, used to be…

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An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

By DeathBecomesHer

10 January, 2025

Last year I read and reviewed Here One Minute by Liane Moriarty, and it changed my attitude to flying. The book’s central character is an elderly woman who stands up on a flight between Hobart, Tasmania and Sydney, Australia and proceeds to tell each of…

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Murder Town by Shelley Burr

By DeathBecomesHer

21 November, 2024

Where would Australian crime fiction be without its small, isolated outback towns, complete with crime rates to rival Midsomer Murders? The likes of Chris Hammer, Jane Harper and Garry Disher have put such places on the map – and long may they continue to do…

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What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 November, 2024

Ajay Close’s new crime thriller is a work of fiction inspired by the notorious Yorkshire Ripper case of the 1970s, which gained huge media coverage and prompted a massively inefficient manhunt. In that case, the police eventually identified the killer, but were severely criticised for…

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Venom in the Blood by Tracy Buchanan

By DeathBecomesHer

11 August, 2024

There’s an attractive cobweb on the cover of Venom in the Blood. No sign of its creator, thankfully – it would certainly put this arachnophobe reader off if a big hairy spider took centre stage. Instead, the creepy crawlies feature heavily within the pages of…

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Memento Mori: New Spanish crime thriller on Walter Presents

Down and Out in the River City by Wm Stage

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Into Thin Air by Ørjan Karlsson

An Ethical Guide to Murder by Jenny Morris

Murder Town by Shelley Burr

What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close

Venom in the Blood by Tracy Buchanan

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