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The Hangman's Song

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Written by James Oswald — Edinburgh. The present day. A busload of prostitutes is being shipped out of Leith Docks, to pastures new. Who is behind this traffic? Who is the mysterious Russian pimp who has muscled in on a local operation? Meanwhile the man…
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Gone on Kauai

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Written by Bruce W Perry — On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a beautiful American woman hires a paddle board from a beach outlet and pushes herself off into the calm and crystal clear ocean. Only her battered board returns. Amanda Wilcox is the daughter…
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Nero Wolfe plays hardball, and more...

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On the Radar –– In a cold and blustery February we can thank Robert Goldsborough for warming us up as he resurrects the housebound detective Nero Wolfe for a baseball-based mystery set during the American summer. We’ll also get even more retro with two historical…
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A Ghostly Shade of Pale

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Written by Merle Temple — We are in the Deep South, strutting that well-worn stage set where almost anything can happen – the land where Mississippi meets Tennessee meets Arkansas. Bugs the size of golf balls clatter into the kerosene lanterns and, out there on…
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Burn, baby, burn...

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On the Radar — We’re off to a fiery start this week with English writer MR Hall’s latest forensic mystery, but there’s also historical crime fiction, two books full of espionage and a unique new self-published novel by Oak Anderson called Take One With You….
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A classic revisited: The Big Bow Mystery

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The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill wasn’t the first locked room mystery ever published. That accolade goes to Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841. However the 1892 book is widely regarded as the first full length novel…
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Policemen, pawns and poison

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On the Radar — This week sees JD Robb’s In Death and Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series receive updates, but there’s plenty of new blood spilled as well. Up-and-coming Canadian author Peggy Blair is set to release her second book, and we also meet Ryan…
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