Ever since She Rides Shotgun blew us out of our armchairs in 2017, we’ve been keeping an eye out for the SoCal crime author, Jordan Harper – especially our in-house dark thriller aficionado, Rough Justice. And right now, RJ is licking his lips over A Violent Masterpiece which is looking sharper than an X-Acto blade rolling off the X-Acto sharpening machine’s conveyor belt. See below.
But lemme tell ya, there are lots more big releases where that one came from. We’ve also got new crime fiction by Scotland’s Andrew Raymond, America’s James Comey, Ireland’s Dervla McTiernan and more… What a time to be a crime fiction lover!
A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper delivers a helping of contemporary noir in A Violent Masterpiece, arrives in paperback on 4 June. Los Angeles is on the brink, a burning brutal mess where violence is always the answer. The carnage is captured every night by Jake Deal, who shares it with his blood-hungry subscribers via a livestream. Meanwhile, street lawyer Doug Gibson in the thick of it, trying to stem the tide and fix the system one case at a time. And Kara Delgado sees life through a different lens, working for a private concierge company. Their worlds collide when Kara’s best friend Phoebe goes missing. Can the trio work together and succeed against all odds?
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The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond
Tartan noir specialist Andrew Raymond is starting a new series on 4 June, and The Long Isle is set on the remote Hebridean island of South Uist. DC Mairead Maclean was born there and reluctantly returns when someone is brutally murdered on the beach. The investigation needs her local knowledge, but Maclean would rather forget the things she knows about the place. Her reappearance means old friendships and past hostilities are rekindled, and someone is keeping a close eye on her – someone who would not hesitate to kill again if it means that long buried secrets can be kept hidden.
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Red Verdict by James Comey
You’d think former director of the FBI James Comey might have enough on his hands these days, but he’s still finding time for crime writing. Red Verdict comes out on 4 June and is the fourth book to feature US Attorney Nora Carleton, and this time she’s up against a formidable opponent – with the security of the whole country at stake, no pressure, then. An influential defence company executive is served up with more than a first-class meal when he sits down for dinner at an exclusive restaurant in Manhattan. It’s the last food he will ever eat, because it was spiked with Novichok. It looks like the Russians are sending a message – but what, exactly? As Nora tries to investigate, she is met with a wall of silence.
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Death and Déjà Vu by Ian Moore
Ian Moore‘s Death and Déjà Vu is cosy crime with a French frisson, featuring Richard Ainsworth – whose move to rural France to escape the world takes an unexpected turn when he is voted mayor of the small town of Saint-Sauver. To recover from the shock, his business partner and bounty hunter of international repute, Valérie d’Orçay, suggests a spa break at Esprit de l’Air, a world-famous venue on a deserted island fort off the west coast of France. But the first night is anything but restful, and film historian Richard has the distinct feeling that he’s seen all this before. Then the first body is found and his intuition is proved right… Find out more on 4 June.
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Three Reasons for Revenge by Dervla McTiernan
A respected psychologist, a socialite and a single father each receive a beautifully wrapped package destined to tear their lives apart in Dervla McTiernan’s Three Reasons for Revenge, set in Melbourne, Australia and out on 4 June. It’s up to DS Judith Lee to get to the bottom of this complex case, and she soon becomes convinced that the gifts are linked to a young woman who reported an assault then disappeared overnight – but how? It’s clear that someone is playing a deadly game of revenge, and the deeper Judith digs, the further she seems to be from the truth.
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Defrosted by Cristina LePort
It’s a while since we featured a medical thriller and this one is set firmly in the future. The year is 2220 when cryogenically preserved scientist Dr Peter Royce and his wife, Monica, are awakened. The world is dying, threatened by a devastating plague known as mitocancer that threatens to extinguish humanity and a regime that controls life and death based solely on usefulness to society. In a landscape that bears no resemblance to the one they remember, the pair become embroiled in a high-stakes game of political intrigue where every secret they unravel puts them in greater danger. Sounds cool! Defrosted by Cristina LePort is out now for Kindle and as a hardback on 2 June.
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