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It's a Dark Dawn at the Devil's Chimney

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On The Radar – British authors lead the charge again this week in our new books update with themes including both vigilante justice and night-time creepers. But we also have a novel set in Thailand where taking a break won’t involve sipping cocktails on the…
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Hit and Run

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Driving home from a swanky PR do in Edinburgh with his girlfriend and brother – everyone up to the eyeballs on pilfered narcotics and beetroot schnapps – Billy Blackmore drives through a pedestrian. Reporting it will mean lost jobs, arrest, maybe prison, so they do…
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Raylan

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US Marshall Raylan Givens returns in this third in the series from Elmore Leonard featuring the characters in the popular TV show Justified. The book really has three storylines – Raylan finds a man semi-comatose after having his kidneys removed, then must protect an unscrupulous…
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What It Was

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Narrated by the Pelecanos character Derek Strange, it all starts with the murder of Bobby Odum and the theft of a ring. Parked outside – a Plymouth Fury, the GT Sport two-door with a V8 inside. The plates read Coco, as in brothel owner Coco…
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CWA Dagger in the Library longlist announced

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The longlist for the CWA Dagger in the Library has finally been announced. The Crime Writers’ Association awards various daggers to crime authors, and this one reflects the favourites as nominated by library users. Earlier in the year, we reported that the crime fiction genre…
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Nothing Matters

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Written by Steve Finbow — Sometimes love merges into obsession and sometimes reality seems a temporary condition. Nothing Matters explores just such times. X and Z, lovers for a time, are engaged in a chase. She is running from him, and toward something. He is…
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The Beatitudes

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Written by Lyn LeJeune — Take a well-known piece of New Testament scripture, add a liberal dose of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, and a crime fighting duo made up of a ghost and a Voodoo Gran Met, and you basically have all the key ingredients…
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