The Christmas and summer holiday season (at least in Australia) is nearly on us and I have recently read three books that would make for ideal reading over the festive...
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Smoke And Embers by John Lawton (Atlantic Monthly/Grove, May 2025) A new John Lawton novel is always a treat and in 2025 we are going to get the ninth book in his...
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The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter (Quercus, 7 November 2024) 2024 is finishing on a bit of a high note for spy fiction fans, with David Goodman’s impressive spy...
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As Benjamin Stevenson points out in the ‘Prologue’ to Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret, (Penguin, 22 October 2024), Christmas mystery stories, or...
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A Reluctant Spy by David Goodman (Headline, 12 September 2024) After a slowish start, the spy fiction offerings for 2024 and early 2025 are beginning to pick up with...
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I am about to head to America to attend the Bouchercon Crime Fiction Convention in Nashville, and have been doing some Australian pre-spring cleaning: looking back over...
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