Book Club

Redemption Road

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Written by John Hart and narrated by Scott Shepherd, this audiobook comes with a strong recommendation because of its compellingly written female characters. The story is about Elizabeth Black, a cop with 13 years experience, who goes to rescue an 18-year-old girl but, when she…
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Book Club

Last Light

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CJ Lyons immerses us in small town Texas in this cold case thriller. Ex-FBI agent Lucy Guardino is head hunted by a consulting agency that tries to solve cases the authorities couldn’t… or at least the ones they couldn’t resolve properly. Down in Blackwell County, Texas,…
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Book Club

The Second Life of Nick Mason

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Steve Hamilton’s modern noir novel, as the title suggests, is centred on Nick Mason. His first life went royally wrong when he was put away for 25 years for felony homicide. But, guess what, he’s free! A Chicago crime lord has sprung him from jail…
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Do you fly Underground Airlines?

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On the Radar — It’s a truly inspiring week for new releases, with a new novel from Ben H Winters, another from Karin Slaughter, and for lovers of Tartan noir we’ve got the new Malcolm Mackay book as well. Plus, there’s also a treat for anyone…
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Features

Domestic noir on Brum Radio...

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Brum Radio is an internet radio station set up in Birmingham that hosts its Books Show every Friday at 1pm. Once in a while they focus on crime novels, and Crime Fiction Lover has contributed a couple of segments looking at specific phenomena in the world of…
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News

You can count on Banks

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On the Radar — Well, when we say ‘you can count on Banks’ we mean Alan Banks, the detective central to Peter Robinson’s police procedural series, who also appears in the ITV crime drama based on the books. Not banks like Lloyds or Natwest – we can’t…
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