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High White Sun

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In the sequel to The Far Empty, J Todd Scott returns to the Texas’s bleak Big Bend country. The very remoteness of this scorched landscape attracts an ill-assorted bunch of white supremacists intent on establishing a community there. Sheriff Chris Cherry knows violence will inevitably…
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High White Sun

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Written by J Todd Scott — High White Sun is a solid follow-up to J Todd Scott’s 2016 debut hit, The Far Empty. Again set in the West Texas Big Bend country and with some of the same characters, in the new book Sheriff Chris Cherry…
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Sunset and Jericho by Sam Wiebe

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Canadian author Sam Wiebe is known for his gritty, realistic Vancouver noir, especially the Dave Wakeland series about a former cop turned private investigator. Sunset and Jericho is the fourth book in the series however it can be read as a standalone. If you are…
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White Fox by Owen Matthews

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White Fox is the third novel to feature Russian KGB officer Alexander Vasin, a man much like Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther, in that he has had the bad luck to be born with a moral sense and independent streak while serving within a totalitarian regime….
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Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2018

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December – that time for crime fiction lovers to look back at the mayhem of the past year and turn our heads forward, Janus-like, to gleefully anticipate the disorder of the coming year. In 2018, I reviewed 44 books here, across the wide crime fiction spectrum,…
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Sins as Scarlet

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Written by Nicolas Obregon — Detective Kosuke Iwata is back, this time back in Los Angeles, after escaping a hell of his own making in Japan. The problem is Iwata doesn’t feel at home anywhere, and no matter how much he runs there are some…
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