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Monday, October 6, 2025

Review: Cromwell's Spy by Dennis Sewell

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Synopsis: A vivid biography of the elusive George Downing, a Puritan from colonial Massachusetts who became Oliver Cromwell's chief spy...

Review: Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

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Synopsis: Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a mystery that has baffled Japan for ...

Review: Murder in Constantinople by AE Goldin

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Synopsis: A gripping, immersive historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London's East End is pulled into the hunt for a s...

Review: A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls by Adam Morgan

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Synopsis: The definitive biography of overlooked queer icon Margaret C. Anderson, whose fight to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses led to her a...

Review: Desolation by Keith Moray

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Synopsis: The Black Rood of Scotland, stolen. A coroner of York, murdered. An evil worse than plague itself, at large… 1361, York. As t...

Review: Feast for the Ravens by Sarah Hawkswood

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Synopsis: Worcestershire, September 1145. A Templar knight is found dead in the Forest of Wyre, clutching a bloodstained document naming a ...

Review: A Sociopath's Guide to a Successful Marriage by MK Oliver

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Synopsis: A whip-smart and darkly funny crime novel—perfect for fans of My Sister, the Serial Killer and The Maid —that follows a wife and...

Review: Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: Tokyo, 1947. The Pink Labyrinth is one of the bomb-scarred city's most shady neighbourhoods. There, in the dead of night a pa...

Review: The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa

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Synopsis: A subversively cozy Japanese murder mystery with an ingenious Groundhog Day twist: a teenager’s time-loop race to solve—and pos...