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Watch Joanna Wallace read from The Art of Getting Hammered

15 July, 2026

Back in 2023, we discovered Claire – the very unusual serial killer with a dark sense of humour at the heart of You’d Look Better as a Ghost, by Joanna Wallace. The book received a five-star review here on the site, and it won Debut…

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Meet the author: GR Halliday

By crimefictionlover

14 July, 2026

Back in 2019, Scottish author GR Halliday entered the world of crime fiction with his debut novel, From the Shadows. Now, it’s 2026, a lucky seven years later, and copies are flying off the shelves. ITV has turned that first DI Monica Kennedy novel into…

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Watch GR Halliday reading from From the Shadows

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2026

Will you be (or have you been) watching The Dark on ITV, airing from 12 July 2026? Well, it’s based on the 2019 novel From The Shadows by GR Halliday. The book has just been republished to coincide with the show and not only have…

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A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper

By RoughJustice

10 June, 2026

In 2023, Everybody Knows plunged us head first in to Jordan Harper’s Los Angeles – a neon nightmare of fame, scandal, drugs and depravity, where the rich do as they please and its left for the little people to clean up their mess. It’s a…

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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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First Look: The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

By crimefictionlover

29 April, 2026

We loved You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace – so much so that it earned a five-star review here on the site. Our readers loved it too, voting it the Best Debut Novel of 2023 in the Crime Fiction Lover Awards that…

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Reaper by Vanda Symon

By Sharon Richardson

25 March, 2026

New Zealand author Vanda Symon is known primarily for her Sam Shephard books but began a new series in 2022 with Faceless, featuring Max Grimes. Reaper is the followup to that novel about the former policeman who now lives on the streets of Auckland. This…

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The Whispering Bones by Andrew Lowe

By Chris Connor

18 February, 2026

No stranger to crime and detective fiction with the Jake Sawyer series, author Andrew Lowe now brings us a compelling new duo who couldn’t be more different. The procedural mystery The Whispering Bones introduces DCI Oswald Lennox and PC Olivia Blackwood, two Met officers at…

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Watch Joanna Wallace read from The Art of Getting Hammered

Meet the author: GR Halliday

Watch GR Halliday reading from From the Shadows

A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper

Astronaut! by Oana Aristide

First Look: The Art of Getting Hammered by Joanna Wallace

Reaper by Vanda Symon

The Whispering Bones by Andrew Lowe

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