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A talented new crop of memoirists explore the friction between their queer identities and their cultural and geographical surroundings. Asylum Edafe Okporo’s aptly titled memoir, Asylum: A Memoir and a Manifesto, recounts his experience growing up gay in Nigeria, a place known for having harsh laws against “known homosexuals.” Okporo writes with sensitivity about the

Tom Boy is the sequel to Copy Boy, with Shelley Blanton-Stroud bringing us the further adventures of cub reporter Jane Benjamin in a tale that is lighter than her first outing. Back then, Jane got a job as a copy boy with Prospect, a San Francisco newspaper, by pretending to be a young man, donning

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Dear Little Corpses is the 10th book in Nicola Upson’s atmospheric series featuring Golden Age crime author Josephine Tey flexing her little grey cells as an amateur sleuth. While the nearest the real-life Josephine seemingly came to fighting crime was retrospectively investigating the role of Richard III in the infamous disappearance of the Princes in

Angie Thomas’s sophomore novel, On The Come Up, follows 16-year-old aspiring rapper Bri. Bri dreams of rap stardom and gets her break after a battle, wherein she writes a song that captures the attention of rap fans in her community. Though Bri’s not sure she wants to release the song, but she’s also sure she

Fancy two nights in Lisbon? Don’t mind if I do! Sun, stunning architecture, fabulous food and drink… what’s not to like? These are all thoughts that probably run through Ariel Price’s head when her new husband John Wright invites her to join him on a business trip to the Portuguese capital. The couple has only

The award-winning Scottish crime author Denise Mina returns to the top of the bill here in our new books column this week as she prepares for the launch of Confidence, the second novel featuring her accidental sleuths Fin and Anna. We also have a debut by Texas author Katie Gutierrez, a new anthology of short

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Do former police detectives ever stop, erm, detecting? Not if Matt Ballard and Liz Haynes are anything to go by. With a dining room turned into an incident suite and an unerring nose for a mystery, this pair of sleuths wouldn’t dream of putting their feet up. Trick of the Night is the fifth in

A new research study by Typing.com — a company that teaches keyboarding, digital literacy, and coding — explored the estimated monthly search volumes on Google and Amazon for the 50 most well-known self-help books. The aim was to determine which self-help titles were the most popular, and the results showcase a wide range of interests

An outrageous and shocking terrorist act which kills more than 1400 people, mostly school children, drives this satirical sci-fi crime crossover. David Musgrave’s genre-bending novel Lambda successfully blends the hunt for the bombers and the indiscriminate, or at least unfocused, desire for retribution. By raising contemporary issues he gives us a reflection on modern Britain’s

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Where do you truly belong? In your ancestral homeland or the country where you were born? Through the eyes of three distinct characters, Soon Wiley’s debut novel examines the search for one’s true cultural identity. The driving force behind this search is the mysterious death of a young student and her boyfriend’s determination to expose

Graham Bartlett spent 30 years in the police, including a spell as Chief Superintendent in Brighton, the location of his debut novel Bad for Good. He has advised many of our favourite crime writers and TV shows on policing issues in the past including Anthony Horowitz, Mark Billingham, Elly Griffiths, Peter James and Dorothy Koomson.

Young sleuths searching for great mystery novels know exactly what they’re looking for: engaging characters, a suspenseful story, a satisfying resolution and a touch of heart. They’ll find all that and more in these two middle grade books. Duet If the animal menagerie of Deborah and James Howe’s classic Bunnicula series had included a goldfinch,

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2022 is a big year for New York author Lee Matthew Goldberg. This month he launched Immoral Origins, the first book in his Desire Card series, and he plans to release four more before the year is out. These rapid-fire pulp noir novels start off in New York City in the late 1970s and follow

A Riley Sager novel is a guaranteed wild ride, and the New York Times bestseller’s hotly anticipated sixth book, The House Across the Lake, is no different. Sager is the literary equivalent of a master chef, using a deft hand to configure tasty ingredients—a complex, grieving woman with alcoholism; a missing supermodel with dangerous secrets

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Back for a rare second consultation with Dr Noir is former Guardian foreign correspondent-turned-crime writer Martin Walker as the latest edition of The Doctor Will See You Now explores his series set in rural France and featuring Bruno Courrèges – known to crime fiction lovers everywhere as Bruno, Chief of Police. Martin has been a

Celebrate the holiday with a Juneteenth book sale! The huge Amazon sale features some of the most popular and best-selling Black authors. The sale ends soon, so make sure to get your books quickly! Hopefully you’re able to snag some good reads from this Juneteenth book sale! For more deals, make sure to subscribe to

Chris first introduced us to his taciturn, reluctant private detective Mick Hardin in last year’s The Killing Hills. Hardin is an army CID officer who went on leave to fix his marriage. His wife, perhaps sick of his absences abroad, was pregnant with another man’s child. Instead, he became involved in a murder investigation helping

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Translated by Alice Menzies — The key to a really good serial killer thriller is a dark foreboding atmosphere and this novel has it in abundance. When you read The Mirror Man you feel the temperature plummet. The bestselling Swedish writing duo Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and husband Alexander Ahndoril – AKA Lars Kepler – have

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We love crime in translation on this site, so this week our excitement begins with the arrival of a Japanese classic that has been translated into English by Pushkin Vertigo. Death on Gokumon Island is by the great Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) who took the Golden Age of crime fiction of the West and created a

NPD BookScan recently shared a report showing an LGBTQ book sales surge in the U.S. The sales of LGBTQ fiction in 2021 was 5 million, twice as much as they were in 2020. The surge has only continued in 2022, with a 39% increase so far. The increase has been led by young adult novels,

William Shaw, author of the top notch Alexandra Cupidi and the Breen and Tozer novels, has a new pen persona. And it makes a lot of sense because Dead Rich and his previous procedurals are chalk and cheese, appealing to different audiences. By design or accident, GW Shaw’s maritime adventure is full of the zeitgeist.

Smart, tenacious teen sleuths star in three remarkable mystery novels. These detectives have curious minds, a knack for sussing out secrets and a thirst for justice.  ★ Hollow Fires In Samira Ahmed’s powerful Hollow Fires, 17-year-old aspiring journalist Safiya Mirza describes herself as “a giddy teen rom-com cliché, but with more panic and terror churning in

Survive to Fight: Stop at Nothing is the follow up to Billy Billingham’s successful action debut Call to Kill, which introduced Matt Mason and was set in war-torn Yemen. For his second outing the action moves to Africa. Billingham knows his stuff. He amassed 27 years in the services before working as a bodyguard for