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Jo Nesbo
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Alexandra Benedict
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Martin Edwards
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Edward Marston
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David Stuart Davies
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Denzil Meyrick
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Carter Dickson
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Wilkie Collins
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Richard Osman
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Elly Griffiths
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Resurrection Walk
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Michael Connelly
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Jeffrey Archer
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Zero Days
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Murder on the Dance Floor
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Shirley Ballas
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Conviction
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Jack Jordan
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The Raging Storm
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Ann Cleeves
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The Satsuma Complex
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Bob Mortimer
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The Bullet That Missed
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Richard Osman
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The Drift
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Peter May
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The Ink Black Heart
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Robert Galbraith
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No Plan B
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Lee Child
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Agatha Christie
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Janice Hallett
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Celia Fremlin
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Mick Herron
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Kia Abdullah
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On the Horizon: The Biggest Crime Fiction for 2024

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Kate Atkinson
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Abir Mukherjee
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Erin Kelly
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The Man in Black and Other Stories
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Charlotte Vassell
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Tana French
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The Appeal
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A selection of our favourite foreign language crime novels

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Lady Joker: Volume 2
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Kaoru Takamura
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Hervé le Tellier
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Andrea Camilleri
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Maigret's Revolver
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Georges Simenon
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Three Assassins
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Kotaro Isaka
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Laurent Mauvignier
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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Roseanna
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Roberto Perrone
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Karin Smirnoff
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C.J. Tudor on Her Top Winter Thrillers

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Explore the dark, dangerous and utterly unputdownable world of true crime storytelling.

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