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Our critic's must-read review of a KILLER career (opens the original)
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Geoffrey's retirement concludes an exemplary 20 year reviewing career HAVING reviewed crime and thrillers for the Daily Mail for almost 20 years I have quietly decided to stop. It’s been an honour and a privilege to celebrate the work of so many wonderful authors over those years, but, at the age of 81, I think the time has come to call it a day. So what was my favourite crime novel? There are so many that I can’t pick just one. I am a huge fan of Michael Connelly, who gave the world the unforge
Deeply Creepy Thrillers for the start of autumn (opens the original)
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The Wicked Girls is available now from the Mail Bookshop An ancient curse grips the tiny Cornish coastal village of Peneerie. It dates back almost 200 years, to when Eliza – who worked as a servant at the local manor – leapt off the cliffs to her death on her 17th birthday. But now it is happening all over again. Schoolgirl Naomi has just done the same thing on her birthday, watched by Kat, the mother of Ruby, who is about to turn 17. As Ruby’s birthday approaches, other girls in her class also
The best crime fiction out this month (opens the original)
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Not a Word is available now from the Mail Bookshop REECE Chartwell goes to visit his mother and father unexpectedly and finds them both dead in their bedroom – with gunshot wounds. He’s traumatised because it looks like a murder-suicide. When the police arrive they think the same – until they examine the scene more carefully. The woman on the bed might look like his mother, but isn’t. So begins this magnificent Shakespearean tragedy of secrets and lies. Did his father kill his lover? Did the mot
Can this spy's deadly mission avert disaster? Thrillers out this month (opens the original)
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The British Agent is available now from the Mail Bookshop A female British agent, codenamed Chuff, is sent by His Majesty’s Government to Ukraine to retrieve four missiles. They may have been taken by the rogue Russian mercenary group, Wagner. The attempt sees her all but killed twice in the forests of the country and then in a mad dash to Turkey to persuade a Russian oligarch to sell them, in the company of a mysterious, possibly American agent, called Natasha. So begins Conway’s richly detaile
Susie Dent is back in the best Crime novels of the month (opens the original)
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Death Writ Large is available now from the Mail Bookshop This second outing for the perspicacious Oxford lexicographer Martha Thornhill is every bit as gripping as her debut, Guilty By Definition, last year. Here she finds a set of suspicious runes inscribed on a church wall where an acclaimed academic has apparently killed himself by jumping from the tower. Martha is suspicious – and she, together with her dictionary-editing colleagues, starts to examine what the cryptic message means. So begin
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