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Brian Cliff

Reporter · IE

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Sep 6, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Brian Cliff

    A stunning novel by T Geronimo Johnson is among this month’s best new crime fiction (opens the original)

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    His first since 2015’s lauded Welcome to Braggsville, T Geronimo Johnson’s new novel arrives billed as “The Wire meets Colson Whitehead”. Over nearly 700 dazzling, dizzying pages, The Occidental Book of the Dead (Abacus, £25) shows why it’s attracted such heady comparisons. The novel is largely narrated by George Washington Jonson, a veteran black cop in Atlanta who’s on patrol when his white rookie trainee shoots Anthony, a white teen. For Jonson and the reader both, that pivotal s

  2. Article · Jul 12, 2026 · Brian Cliff

    Crime fiction: Hitchcockian flair in modern Ireland, and a note-perfect Mexican noir (opens the original)

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    With an elegantly brutal opening scene, Jane Casey’s Everything She Didn’t Say (Hemlock, £16.99) launches a cast of characters who play mind games as if they were born to it. This perfectly titled mystery is a surprising and at times darkly comic chess match full of satisfying twists and turns. Something horrible has clearly happened in Shadow House, a high-end “reimagined Irish cottage” on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic. It had most recently been occupied by Maura Ellender and Ruth O

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