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A Cold Red Sunrise

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Written by Stuart M Kaminsky — Kaminsky was one of the most prolific and versatile American mystery writers. During his more than 30 years of writing crime fiction, he created four long-standing detective series set in Hollywood (Toby Peters), Chicago (Lieberman), Florida (Lew Fonesca) and…
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Lucy: Top five books of 2012

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2012 has been a great year for crime fiction with some excellent new writers appearing, as seen in New Talent November. This made it particularly difficult to pick my top five books. And with all five having the qualities to be number one, it was…
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A Cold Day in Paradise

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Written by Steve Hamilton — A Cold Day in Paradise is the first book by Steve Hamilton and it’s a double-whammy. It won both the Edgar and the Shamus Awards for Best First Novel back in 1999 and the author has written several other highly…
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Death to the hackers

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On the radar – We’ve been rather spoilt for choice with the books on offer in this week’s postbag with some interesting debut novels, thrillers and an interesting historical mystery that really caught our attention. Among this week’s selection of recent releases are the debut…
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Bloodland by Alan Glynn

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A conspiracy thriller that moves with ease between recession-hit Ireland, the killing fields of Congo and the political wrangling of the United States, Bloodland is a fast, furious and depressingly plausible story. This is not the kind of book I would normally pick up, as I find conspiracy…
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Night Blind

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Written by Michael W Sherer — On the banks of the River Seine, a priest meets with a discredited French government agent, and hands him a document. Seconds later, the holy man is thrown over the embankment into the swirling waters, his throat cut. Meanwhile,…
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DavidPrestidge: Top five books of 2012

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It’s been a year when self-publishing and the rise of the digital book have made a huge impact on the range of crime fiction available to reviewers and the reading public. Anyone who has the stamina and bloody-mindedness to plan, plot and complete a book can…
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