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A summertime of crime

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On The Radar — Summer has finally arrived and what better way to enjoy the heatwave we’ve been promised, than with an ice cold jug of Pimms and some of the latest crime fiction currently on offer. Amongst our latest new releases are the return of…
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Homicide 69 by Sam Reaves

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We get dozens of review requests each week from authors and publishers. The books range from mainstream work by best-selling writers to self-published debut novels. We do our best to cover the full scope crime fiction out there and just occasionally we come across a…
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Reacher said nothing

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The package we’ve been waiting for has arrived. Inside, an uncorrected proof of Never Go Back, the 18th Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Honoured this year with the CWA’s Diamond Dagger Award for his incredibly successful career writing in the genre, it appears as…
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21:37 by Mariusz Czubaj

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Translated by Anna Hyde — What could be the meaning of the mysterious numbers marked in blood on the bodies of two young men found together by the Olympic Centre in Warsaw in April 2007?  Well, if you are Polish, the numbers 21 and 37 mean much…
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Poppet by Mo Hayder

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Odd things have been happening at Beechway’s psychiatric unit, and AJ LeGrande, recently promoted from his nursing position, is becoming increasingly worried, not only about his staff, but about the patients. Workers have been calling in sick in order to avoid the nightshift and AJ…
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Banks is back!

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On the Radar — This week’s book report features news on the latest DCI Banks novel by Peter Robinson. Also, former BBC journalist Bea Davenport makes her crime fiction debut, drawing on her experience as a local communities reporter in the north east of England….
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