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The Posthumous Man

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Written by Jake Hinkson – I reviewed Jake Hinkson’s debut novel Hell on Church Street last year and loved how it updated classic noir. I have been keeping an eye out for whatever he did next, so when this novella was published at the tail…
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Never Saw It Coming

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Written by Linwood Barclay — My introduction to the work of top-selling author Linwood Barclay is a slim volume, which I found somewhat off-putting, being one of those make ’em thick, read ’em quick kind of girls. But I hadn’t reckoned on Barclay’s consummate skill as…
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Heretics on the path of the wicked

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On the Radar — This week’s book report has a distinctly historical flavour; we start our journey back in the 16th century, with intelligencer John Shakespeare embarking on his fifth investigation and the possible threat of another attempted Spanish invasion, before moving forward to the…
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Capital Punishment

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Written by Robert Wilson — A chaotic, booze-fueled night out for a group of London 20-somethings results in confusion and a random stabbing on a Covent Garden pavement. A drunk girl is whisked away from the carnage in a taxi. But it isn’t a real…
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Kinsey and Me

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Written by Sue Grafton – Best known for her ‘Alphabet’ series of crime novels featuring feisty female private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton will be a name familiar to many crime fiction followers. It’s more than 30 years since we were introduced to Kinsey, and…
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Grit Lit: An intro to Southern Noir

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The American south is a hot, sticky, vast place with a rich history, spanning all the way from Texas, through to Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and on into North Carolina. Also called the Deep South, this was often used to refer to the seven states that…
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Secrets, lies and steampunk

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On the radar – Our new books report this week is an eclectic mix of crime fiction, ranging from horror and steampunk short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes to death aboard a modern day Viking longship, and on to a case of baby snatching. We also…
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