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2022
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The Appeal by Janice Hallett

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Welcome to Cooper by Tariq Ashkanani
Repentance by Eloisa Diaz
The Mash House by Alan Gillespie
Where Ravens Roost by Karin Nordin
How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman
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Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
Hunted by Antony Dunford
Raft of Stars by Andrew J Graff
Falling by TJ Newman
The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou
A Mumbai Murder Mystery by Meeti Shroff-Shah
The Source by Sarah Sultoon

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2021
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The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdottir translated by Victoria Cribb

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City of Ghosts by Ben Creed
The One That Got Away by Egan Hughes
The Bone Jar by SW Kane
Fortune Favours the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
Three-Fifths by John Vercher

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The Silence by Susan Allott
The Silent Daughter by Emma Christie
The Chalet by Catherine Cooper
Under Violent Skies by Judi Daykin
Cuddies Strip by Rob McInroy
What Is Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
Hermit by SR White
2020
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The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood

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Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Little White Lies by Philippa East
The Wreckage by Robin Morgan-Bentley

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Trust Me, I’m Dead by Sherryl Clark
Whirligig by Andrew James Greig
This Dark Little Place by AS Hatch
Hold Your Tongue by Deborah Masson
Black Sun by Owen Matthews
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
A Death in the Medina by James Von Leyden
2019
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Scrublands by Chris Hammer

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All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
The Boy At The Door by Alex Dahl
Turn A Blind Eye by Vicky Newham
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Overkill by Vanda Symon

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Motherland by GD Abson
When Darkness Calls by Mark Griffin
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup
2018
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Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love

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Gravesend by William Boyle
IQ by Joe Ide
Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
East Of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

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Soho Dead by Greg Keen
Ravenhill by John Steele
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton​
2017
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Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker

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The Pictures by Guy Bolton
Ragdoll by Daniel Cole
Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
Sirens by Joseph Knox
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
 
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The Watcher by Ross Armstrong
What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney
Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg
Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus
Himself by Jess Kidd
The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy
2016
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Dodgers by Bill Beverly
 
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Fever City by Tim Baker
Freedom’s Child by Jax Miller
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
2015
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Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
 
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The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
The Abrupt Physics of Dying by Paul E Hardisty
You by Caroline Kepnes
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
 
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Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
The Well by Catherine Chanter
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little
The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty
2014
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The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
 
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The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
 
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Night Heron by Adam Brookes
Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh
2013
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Norwegian by Night by Derek B Miller
 
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Something You Are by Hanna Jameson
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
Shadow of the Rock by Thomas Mogford
 
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Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
The City Of Shadows by Michael Russell
City of Blood by MD Villiers
2012
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Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash
 
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Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
Good People by Ewart Hutton
What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright
 
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The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
The Expats by Chris Pavone
2011
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Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
 
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The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald
The Dead Women of Juarez by Sam Hawken
Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller
 
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Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Or the Bull Kills You by Jason Webster
2010
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Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn
 
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The Pull of the Moon by Diane Janes
Rupture by Simon Lelic
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
 
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Martyr by Rory Clements
Stop Me by Richard Jay Parker
Random by Craig Robertson
Cut Short by Leigh Russell
2009
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Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
 
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Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
Bad Catholics by James Green
No Way To Say Goodbye by Rod Madocks
Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell
2008
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The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees
 
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The Night of the the Mi’raj by Zoë Ferraris
Die With Me by Elena Forbes
Absolution by Caro Ramsay
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
2007
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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
 
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Objects of Desire by CJ Emerson
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
Last Days of Newgate by Andrew Pepper
The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way
2006
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Still Life by Louise Penny
 
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Immoral by Brian Freeman
Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell
2005
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Running Hot by Dreda Say Mitchell
 
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The Great Stink by Clare Clark
Bloody Harvests by Richard Kunzmann
Grip by David McKeowen
2004
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Amagansett by Mark Mills
 
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The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
The Three Body Problem by Catherine Shaw
The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
2003
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Mission Flats by William Landay
 
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Backlash by Rod Duncan
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
2002
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The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
 
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The 25th Hour by David Benioff
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L Carter
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
The Water Clock by Jim Kelly
2001
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The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
 
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Paradise Salvage by John Fusco
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft
2000
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God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
1999
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Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
1998
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Garnethill by Denise Mina
1997
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Body Politic by Paul Johnston
1995
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
1994
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Big Town by Doug J Swanson
1992
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The Ice House by Minette Walters
1991
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Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
1990
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Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
1989
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A Real Shot in the Arm by Annette Roome
1988
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Death's Bright Angel by Janet Neel
1987
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Dark Apostle by Denis Kilcommons
1986
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Tinplate by Neville Steed
1985
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The Latimer Mercy by Robert Richards
1984
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A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside
1983
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The Ariadne Clue by Carol Clemeau
1982
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The Night the Gods Smiled by Eric Wright
1981
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The Ludi Victory by James Leigh
1980
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Dupe by Liza Cody
1979
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Saturday of Glory by David Serafin
1978
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A Running Duck by Paula Gosling
1977
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The Judas Pair by Jonathan Gash
1976
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Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal by Patrick Alexander
1975
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Acid Drop by Sara George
1974
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The Big Fix by Roger L Simon
1973
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Don't Point That Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli
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