Promoting Crime Fiction

As a founder member of Mystery Women in 1997, promoting Crime Fiction has always been my passion. Following the closure of Mystery Women, a new group was formed on 30th January 2012 promoting crime fiction. New reviews are posted daily, but to search for earlier reviews please click on the Mystery People link below and select 'reviews' from the welcome page. This will display an alphabetic option for you to find the review you would like to read

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Tuesday, 26 November 2024

‘The Stranger in my House’ by Judith Barrow

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Published by Honno Press, 14 November 2024. ISBN: 978-1-91682122-4 (PB) Does it count as crime fiction if nobody dies? That’s a moot point...

Monday, 25 November 2024

‘Poppy’s Christmas Cracker’ by Leigh Russell

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Published by Crime & Mystery Club Ltd, 19 September 2024. ISBN: 978-0-85730600-5 (PB) This is the fourth outing for Poppy, the adorab...

Sunday, 24 November 2024

Mystery at Lockley Grange by Clare Chase

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Published by Bookouture, 30 October 2024. ISBN: 978-1-83525727-2 (PB) Prolific mystery writer Clare Chase has a considerable well-deserved f...

Saturday, 23 November 2024

‘Mystery in White’ by J Jefferson Farjeon

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Published by British Library Crime Classics, 25 September 2014 . ISBN: 978-0-7123-5770-8 (PB) Originally published in 1937. On Christmas Eve...

Friday, 22 November 2024

‘Fatal Forgery’ by Susan Grossey

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Independently Published, 12 July 2013. ISBN: 978-1-91600190-9 (PB) 1824, in London. Constable Sam Plank of the magistrates’ force has just...

Wednesday, 20 November 2024

‘Deadfall’ by Aline Templeton

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Published by Allison & Busby, 21 November 2024: ISBN: 978-0-7490-3154-1 (HB) DCI Kelso Strang’s personal life has moved on since his...

‘Murder at Whitechapel Road Station’ by Jim Eldridge

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Published by Allison & Busby, 21 November 2024. ISBN: 978-0-74903146-6 (HB) This is the fourth book in Eldridge’s London Underground S...

Monday, 18 November 2024

‘In Harm’s Way’ by Judith Cutler

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Published by Joffe Books, 24 May 2024. ISBN: 978-1-83526590-1 (PB) Originally Published 24 March 2008 as Still Waters Simon Gates has recent...

Sunday, 17 November 2024

‘Poor Girls’ by Clare Whitfield

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Published by Head of Zeus, 7 November 2024. ISBN: 978-187393086-9 (HB) Clare Whitfield’s third novel is based on real-life characters with...

‘The Widow’ by Helene Flood

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Published by Quercus, 10 October 2024. ISBN : 978-1-52940607-8 (HB) This is the third in Helene Flood's trilogy of stand alone thrill...

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About Me

Lizzie: From an early age I have been a lover of crime fiction. Discovering like minded people at my first crime conference at St Hilda’s Oxford in 1997, I was delighted when asked to join a new group for the promotion of female crime writers. In 1998 I took over the running of the group, which I did for the next thirteen years. During that time I organised countless events promoting crime writers and in particular new writers. But apart from the sheer joy of reading, ‘I actually love books, not just the writing, the plot or the characters, but the sheer joy of holding a book has never abated for me. The greatest gift of my life has been the ability to read'.

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