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The Ranger

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Written by Ace Atkins — Army Ranger Quinn Colson is coming home. Home from Iraq. Home from Afghanistan. Home to Jericho, Mississippi, and his uncle’s funeral. Hampton Beckett was the County Sheriff until he put the barrel of a .44 in his mouth and pulled…
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The Killing Room

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Written by Richard Montanari — Winter grips Philadelphia. Ice floes clunk in the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, but Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano of  the Homicide Unit have, for once, a clean plate. Three recent cases – three suspects in custody. All seems good,…
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A classic revisited: Cop Hater

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“The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.” It’s just 24 words, but no three sentences have ever held so much significance on the flyleaf of a book. Each…
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Sistine

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Written by Michael Hogan — If you love a comfortable murder-detection-solution book, then look away now. Oh, yes, there’s one other thing. Are you a devout Roman Catholic? Once again, you may wish to revisit something more warmly reassuring, like a Father Brown story, or…
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Close to the Bone

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Written by Stuart Macbride — Aberdeen, and the granite walls of the city frown down upon a wave of violent and macabre crimes. A body is found on waste ground, hideously disfigured by having a burning tyre hung round its neck. A succession of Asian men…
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Peter Temple's Australia

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Imagine prose written by a journalist who has been cudgeled by hard-nosed editors into saying as much as possible in the fewest words. Then add the imagination of a poet and the compassionate humility of a medieval saint. Swirl these strands together and you have…
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The Dead of Mametz

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Written by Jonathan Hicks — July 1916, northern France. After 22 months of a war that was meant to be over before its first Christmas, British forces are poised to push the German invaders off the Somme ridges and drive them back whence they came….
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Marked

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Written by David Jackson — New York. Now, or maybe just the other day. A mother, racked with worry, looks out through the rain-streaked window onto the street, hoping to see her missing daughter. Megan has been gone only a few days, but she is…
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