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Luke Goebel: Kill Dick
In Kill Dick we have a morally superficial young woman, Susie Vogelman. Aspiring artist, junkie, and Brentwood parvenue whose father is a lawyer for opioid manufacturer Dick Sickler. Additionally, we have Susie’s former NYU professor who has reinvented himself in LA…
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M.E. Proctor: Kansas City Breakdown – Guest Post
Preorder Now! – Click Here I wish there was more romance in contemporary crime fiction. Love seems to have retreated with flowers and chocolates to the quaint gardens and cottages of the cozy mysteries where meet-cutes and tender attachments are de…
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E. A. Jackson: Missing
In August 1990, five-month-old Bella Carpenter is taken from her hotel room through an open window. The disappearance becomes a high-profile case, and Detective Inspector Martha Allen is assigned to lead the investigation. It seemed to be a continuing nightmare of…
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Conor McAnally: Bullets in the Water +Interview
Mike Carson, is a disgraced New York journalist, who returns to his Texas hometown to settle his uncle’s estate. He finds himself drawn to investigating the death of Adam Polley, a newspaper delivery driver, whose car crash reveals bullet holes in…
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David Swinson: From the Dust
Available March 31, 2026 – Pre-Order Here Graham Sanderson, a retired Washington, D.C., homicide detective is trying to leave behind the violence and grief that defined his former life. He’s moved to upstate New York to take care of his brother,…
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Becky Masterman: If a Face Could Kill
Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn, is drawn into the aftermath of her neighbour Dorita Gordino’s murder. The same woman who started a NIMBY petition about the new group home in the neighbourhood. Was this retribution? It’s a simple premise for this…
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Pat Kelly: Rifle Season
Mace Winters is one of Colorado’s most in-demand big-game guides – until a single catastrophic mistake on a hunt leaves a man dead and Mace convicted of involuntary manslaughter. His reputation is ruined, and his guilt is beyond repair. He numbs…
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Peter Spiegelman: Black Maps
John March was born into the Manhattan privilege of a venerable banking family. He left that world to become a rural deputy sheriff, a choice that ended in personal tragedy. Now a private investigator, his friend lawyer Michael Metz, brings him…
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Kevin Wade: Johnny Careless
It’s the tattoo that confirmed the dead man washed ashore was Johnny Chambliss. He bore the same tattoo as Sherriff (Jeep) Mullane who stood in stunned silence at the scene. The coroner says “death undetermined” due to unexplained scratches on Johnny’s…
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Victoria Weisfeld: She Knew Too Much
American travel writer Genie Clarke arrives in Rome chasing the kind of vivid detail that turns a good assignment into a great one. She’s in a cafe when she overhears a conversation by thugs discussing a secret “project”. It becomes her…
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Karen Grose: All June Left Behind
Ray Meadows is a farmer whose wife June, was shot during a botched restaurant robbery on their 40th wedding anniversary. Two years later, the convicted killer is granted a new trial, and Ray’s fragile world collapses. As we follow Ray through…
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John A. Connor: California Twist
John A. Connor’s California Twist is a slick, funny, high-velocity story that reads like classic PI noir with the California sun turned up and the sarcasm dialed to eleven. The novel introduces Harry Rhimes—American born, British bred, an ex-Army major now…
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Tod Goldberg: Only Way Out
Robert Green and Penny Green, brother and sister. He’s a run of the mill Harvard guy, she’s quite the genius. The Baer & Harris legal firm where Robert works has client safety deposit boxes, and he knows the contents of every one…
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May your holidays have cherished moments.
I’m taking a break and will be posting again in the new year. Wishing the best for you all as we head into 2026. ~ June Lorraine Roberts
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Paul Doiron: Storm Tide
Publish Date: June 30, 2026 – PREORDER HERE Maine Game Warden, Mike Bowditch, attempts to rescue the Malloy family from a burning house. It’s kind of ironic that the man owned gyms called Feel The Burn Fitness. Many believe that Brain…
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J.T. Siemens: To Those Who Killed Me
Sloane Donovan discovers the body of her friend Geri Harp in her car behind a Vancouver country club where Donovan works. Without much conscious thought, she pockets the suicide note. A disgraced former police officer Donovan has too much on her…
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Aaron Philip Clark: The Bluest Night
Trevor Finnegan is dragged back into the orbit of law enforcement when his half-brother Avery and Avery’s girlfriend Keisha disappear in Malibu. They were on their way to visit Shaun “Pop” Finnegan and celebrate their new engagement. Pop, a retired LADP…
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Home Fires Burn & A Dark Death
Today, I’m featuring two books that are much lighter fare than the noir I generally write about. They are both enjoyable reads and quite different from each other. HOME FIRES BURN Merry Bell is a trans Private Investigator tentatively reconnecting with…
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Matt Phillips: Second Lies the Son
Sam Carl and Hayes Simms grew up together, best friends, sort of. Always together, but it was never a friendship of equals. They were hell raisers but not bad kids. Simms’ father is another story, a cruel, violent man who once…
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Five suggestions for the Halloween Mood
An early post to take advantage of Halloween. Thought I’d have a bit of fun and list some authors and books that skew crime fiction toward the supernatural and the uncanny, Have fun! Criminal profiler Dan Garvie has lived in the…
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James L’Etoile: Illusion of Truth +Guest Post
Out January 2026! PREORDER HERE Detective Emily Hunter finds herself emotionally sideswiped when her boyfriend and fellow police officer Brian Conner is injured in a bomb blast. It’s the first of targeted attacks against the police. Exacerbating the situation, a city…
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Joel Nedecky: The Broken Detective
PI Jake Joelsen reacts with his bad temper and fists more than his brain. Given his childhood with a neglectful mother, an absent father, and stints in foster homes, the rage inside isn’t surprising. Facing a jail sentence for breaking a…
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M. E. Proctor: Catch Me on a Blue Day +Interview
Arriving at his friend Carlton Marsh’s house, Declan Shaw finds a police inquiry. Marsh, a veteran war correspondent had committed suicide. Shaw had contracted to do research for Marsh’s book about the wars he had reported on, and he knew quite…
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S.L. Woeppel: The Butcher and the Liar
I’m publishing early as I’ll be on the Seine in France on my first river cruise for the next two Sundays. See you when I’m back in Canada. Have a good few weeks! Daisy Bellon was a young girl of nine…
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Melissa Yi: A Guest Post
It’s such a pleasure to bring you the amazing Melissa Yuan-Innes (Melissa Yi). ER Doctor, Award-Winning Author, and much more. She’s going to tell you all about her writing journey. The Travelling Killer: Words and Wanderlust By Melissa Yi Would you…
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Liam McIlvanney: The Good Father via Crime Fiction Girl
Crime Fiction Girl says, “This is a book that will not leave me for a long time. I’ve read dozens of novels so far this year, and many of them have been excellent. They’re all budging down a bit to give top…
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Allan Gaw: The Silent House of Sleep via Crime Book Girl
This week I’m featuring The Silent House of Sleep from the website Crime Book Girl. This looks an interesting read and it must be for it won last years Bloody Scotland Debut Prize . ~ June Lorraine Roberts Murder in Common is…
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Petrona Award -Longlist
At last the longlist is available and Raven Crime Reads is on the ball. I’m a fan of Nordic Noir and this list is a pointer in the right direction for all crime fiction readers. ~ June Lorraine Roberts Murder in…
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Rod Reynolds: Shatter Creek
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m having some vision problems that will need surgery in the near future. Seemingly nothing too serious but I’m waiting on an appointment with the Ophthalmologist. Therefore, I’m sharing farther below, a post from…
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M.E. Proctor & Russell Thayer: Bop City Swing and Dietrich Kalteis: Dirty Little War
Visit 1951 and the 1920s for Some Retro Crime Bop City Swing “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.” – Duke Ellington Tap into the San Francisco’s jazz scene. It’s bebop and swing bands all around and…
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