The latest selection of crime fiction reviews for April, all 100 words a piece, and with a couple of authors pitches on their new books.

Harlen Coben - Think Twice (Century)
Don Winslow - City in Ruins (Hemlock)
Lesley Kara - The Other Tenant (Bantam)
Caz Frear - Five Bad Seeds (Simon & Schuster)
Alis Hawkins The Skeleton Army (Canelo)
Paul Carlucci - The Voyageur (Swift Press)
Rachel McLean - The Dorset Crime Series (Hera)
Seícho Matsumoto - Inspector Imanishi Investigates, trans Beth Cary (Penguin odern Classics)
Nick Louth - The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle (Canelo)
Akimitsu Takagi - The Noh Mask Murder trans Jesse Kirkwood (Pushkin Vertigo)
Apologies for awful Japanese pronunciation.

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2023. An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in 2025.

Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson. GUY HALE 

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