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My Bloody Valentine: five mysteries to love

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It’s Valentine’s Day and whenever there’s romance in there air, a crime of passion is always a possibility. Still we thought we’d put our thinking caps on and find some crime fiction, mixed with an appropriately amorous vibe, just for the ladies out there who…
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Femme and Kinsmen

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Written by Bill Pronzini — Of all the long-running private eye series out there, Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series must be one of the longest ones still going. It spans more than 30 years and 36 novels. I’ve read a couple of those novels and the…
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Close to the Bone

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Written by Stuart Macbride — Aberdeen, and the granite walls of the city frown down upon a wave of violent and macabre crimes. A body is found on waste ground, hideously disfigured by having a burning tyre hung round its neck. A succession of Asian men…
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Driving Alone: A Love Story

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Written by Kevin Lynn Helmick – Nothing much happens to protagonist Billy Keyhoe in Driving Alone. Then again, everything happens to Billy Keyhoe in Driving Alone. Helmick’s slim novella is a relatively short tale, but has all the suspense and significance of a much larger…
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Hit Me

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Written by Lawrence Block — Hit Me is the fifth collection featuring Block’s stamp collecting professional hit man, Keller, and the author has been talking about a special, philatelic collector’s edition. That special run of 500 copies has been put together by Mysterious Press but…
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Watch You Die

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Written by Katia Lief – The phone rings while Darcy Mayhew is making dinner and suddenly her life is turned upside down. Her husband Hugo has been in an accident while driving on Middle Road and now he is dead. Nearly two years later she…
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Death in Spigg's Wood

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Written by Linda Gruchy — This is a confident and unusual debut novel: you get three types of story for the price of one. I don’t mean that in a bad way, as if the author can’t make up her mind what type of novel…
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Crime rules in UK libraries

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Four of the top five most borrowed books in UK libraries were by crime and thriller authors, according to Public Lending Right, the body that makes sure authors receive a payment 6.3 pence each time one of their books is taken out of a library….
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