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The Twelfth Department

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Written by William Ryan — Moscow, 1937, and the hand of Stalin’s empire lies heavily on every street, boulevard, public park, apartment block and factory in the city. And on every citizen. None more so than Captain Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department….
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Already Dead

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Written by Stephen Booth — There have been 12 previous novels set in the Peak District of Derbyshire and featuring Detective Sergeants Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, so fans will know what to expect with Already Dead. Intuitive, off the wall Cooper has always served…
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Matador

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Written by Ray Banks — Ray Banks is very much a crime writer’s crime writer, with a back catalogue full of dark and deviant grit, like Dead Money, previously reviewed here on Crime Fiction Lover. However, he deserves a much wider audience and his latest, Matador,…
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Rebus: saint or sinner?

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Earlier this month the paperback version of Ian Rankin’s Standing in Another Man’s Grave came out and it saw the return of one of Scotland’s most famous crime fiction detectives: John Rebus. His creator had taken a break from JR and retired him off, preferring…
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Waiting For Wednesday

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Written by Nicci French — Frieda Klein is a most unusual heroine. It’s not that she goes looking for trouble, rather than it seems to come and find her. As Waiting For Wednesday opens, psychotherapist Frieda has been sidelined from police work, and is happy…
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Tess Gerritsen launches Alzheimer's appeal

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The crime author Tess Gerritsen, who pioneered the medical thriller sub-genre in the 1990s, and later came up with the Rizzoli & Isles forensic crime series, has launched a fundraiser to help in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Her father died of the disease. Here’s how…
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The Hanging

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Written by Søren and Lotte Hammer — Konrad Simonsen, lead detective in Copenhagen’s Murder Squad, is recalled from his long overdue holiday with his daughter after two children discover the corpses of five men hanging from the ceiling of their school gymnasium. They have been…
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