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The Ambassador's Wife

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Written by Jake Needham — In the Marriott Hotel, Singapore, a woman’s body is found, horribly mutilated. There are very obvious sexual overtones to her death. Soon, another corpse is found in the seedy Thai sex-tourism resort of Pattaya. The crime scene seems identical to…
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The Violin Man's Legacy

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Written by Seumas Gallacher — Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former colleagues in ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a diamond heist in Utrecht, but swiftly learns that there is a very strong Far East connection. He then…
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Dying For Justice

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Written by LJ Sellers — This is the latest in a series of crime novels centred around Detective Wade Jackson. He is a 40-something police officer with a teenage daughter, a divorced wife with a drink problem and an exotic girlfriend who works with vulnerable…
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The Girl in Berlin

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Written by Elizabeth Wilson — It is the summer of 1951, and despite the manufactured optimism of The Festival of Britain, London is finding it hard to shake off the downbeat mood of austerity. Jack McGovern is a detective working with Special Branch. There is…
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The Jaguar

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Written by T Jefferson Parker — Parker has written many stand-alone thrillers, usually set in California, but in The Jaguar we see the return of a character from earlier books, Charlie Hood. Hood is a good cop who has fought his way out of many…
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A Detailed Man

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Written by David Swinson — The central character in A Detailed Man is a Washington policeman – detective Ezra Simeon. He is a loner, with a divorced wife and a platonic best friend, both back in California. He’s recently been afflicted by Bell’s Palsy, a…
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Winter at Death's Hotel

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Written by Kenneth Cameron — Winter at Death’s Hotel is a crime novel I saw reviewed in a national Sunday paper. I bought it expecting a cosy and warm few hours’ journey through the literary conventions of a pastiche Victorian detective story. I could not…
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