Category: Detective and crime fiction
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Vaseem Khan – Quantum of Menace (2025)
This is a new endeavour for Vaseem Khan, after his two award-winning series set in India, the Malabar House and Baby Ganesh series, and his recent standalone US-based thriller, The…
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Gaynor Torrance – Death of a Ghostwriter (2025)
I’m really enjoying the trend towards detective fiction with a strong sense of place, and as someone who lives in Dyffryn Gwy at least part of the time, I was…
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Lucy Foley – Midnight Feast (2025)
This book was everywhere on Waterstones tables for months, and it follows in the well worn tracks of her previous crime thrillers, starting with the excellent The Hunting Party. I…
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Agatha Christie – Dumb Witness (1937)
This Poirot novel doesn’t have the best reviews, either from its initial publication or subsequently, but I found it really rather charming. There is some silliness about the circumstances of…
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Eve Armstrong – Murder By Theory (2022)
Review I bought this a few years ago when talking about Dark Academia and detective fiction with a colleague at UCL. I’d particularly been hunting for something that involved economists,…
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Amy Gentry – Good as Gone (2016)
Review I enjoyed this as an audiobook a few years ago, when my child was very small and it was useful to have things to listen to so that I…
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Craig Robertson – Murderabilia (2016)
Review The reason I still love physical libraries is because they make it so easy to wander slowly through a selection of books and pick up something spontaneously that comes…
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Alice Slater – Death of a Bookseller (2023)
Review I was really excited about the premise of this book, and the initial introductions to its apparently diametrically opposed characters—Roach (aka Brogan) and Laura—fizzed with the promise of tension.…
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Eds. Katherine Stansfield and Caroline Oakley – Cast a Long Shadow (2022)
Preamble If you like mythologically informed (crime-adjacent) fiction, you can also check out my Dear Damsels story, ‘In Darkness’ as well as some of the stories in this collection, available…
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Stuart Turton – The Devil and the Dark Water (2020)
Review I was somewhat slow to this, reading it a few years after it came out. Setting up a master detective requires a deftness of touch; go too far, and…
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