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Cheddar Luck Next Time by  by Beth Cato
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I find most comfy crime novels an oxymoron as they usually deal with a hideous murder. The cosiness comes in the telling and the setting. I blame Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple books with that inquisitive pensioner solving crimes that were hideous, gruesome, committed for money, revenge, or...

Article by Sam Tyler on 22nd April 2025
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The Last Quarry by  by Max Allan Collins
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Never say never when it comes to being a hired hitman. You may not want to kill for money anymore, but if you are anything like Quarry in The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins you may just end up getting in a situation that relies on your old skills and if you get paid for it all the better. This...

Article by Sam Tyler on 3rd April 2025
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The Get Off by  by Christa Faust
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A good life is a life well lived full of new adventures, meeting new people, and experiencing new things. On this criteria Angel Dare has had one of the best lives, she is always meeting new people and finding herself in new places, but not for the reasons she would want. From adult film star to...

Article by Sam Tyler on 21st March 2025
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Midnight Streets by  by Phil Lecomber
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Agatha Christie would have us believe that inter-War murder was cosy, taking place in a picturesque village or on a mode of transport whilst taking in the sites of the Grand Tour. Whilst Marple was eating muffins and Poirot was drinking Prosecco, most of us would have been thrown into the daily...

Article by Sam Tyler on 13th March 2025
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The Contest by  by Jeff Macfee
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Puzzle me this. Whilst other kids were outside climbing trees or knocking a football around, you would often find me indoors or under a tree reading a book or doing puzzles. That has led to two lifelong consequences; a love of puzzles and a problem with weight. Puzzler was always my favourite,...

Article by Sam Tyler on 14th February 2025
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The Ninja Daughter by  by Tori Eldridge
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There are many reasons that an investigator in fiction gets involved in a case. Perhaps they are a Detective, and it is their job, or they are a Private Investigator getting paid. You may stumble across a body and suddenly find yourself drawn into a mystery. All these paths lead to a different...

Article by Sam Tyler on 21st January 2025
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Finding Katarina M by  by Elizabeth Elo
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I have read a few novels recently that have protagonists that seemingly have little control over their destiny, instead stepping into the stream of the narrative and being carried along. On occasion this is a flood and the character flails around with no impact on the wider story, but there is...

Article by Sam Tyler on 6th January 2025
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Culprits by  by Richard Brewer
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Your average heist movie ends in one of two ways; a cliffhanger or the job complete. You rarely get to see what happens to the criminals as they make it off with their ill-gotten gains, or when they are thrown into the slammer. Unless you are Oceans 11, then you just get a couple more heists a...

Article by Sam Tyler on 12th December 2024
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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Quarry's Return by  by Max Allan Collins
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What do you do with an aging character? Some authors choose to pretend that their characters are immortal and never age. This is great for churning out the content, but it does hamstring you into writing the same type of story as you can never move on in fear of making the protagonist too old....

Article by Sam Tyler on 22nd November 2024
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Christmas has many traditions from trees to strange men sneaking down the chimney in the dead of night. One tradition I like is the different genres that tackle the season. There is something spooky about the dark nights and folk traditions that make Christmas Ghost Stories so good, but it is...

Article by Sam Tyler on 6th November 2024
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The Missing Family by  by Tim Weaver
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Every summer is the same, inexperienced people think it would be a clever idea to do some wild swimming unaware that under the first foot of warm reservoir water, there are metres of icy water ready to send you into shock. When three members of the Fowler family disappear when out swimming, the...

Article by Sam Tyler on 29th August 2024
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Cozy crime comes in all sizes, but it still has an odd name. The characters may be eccentric, the setting twee, but when it comes down to it, there is still a dead person lying on the carpet. Marple had her village with its higher crime rate than Gotham, Poirot had various summer vacation spots,...

Article by Sam Tyler on 23rd July 2024
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