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The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths

By DavidPrestidge

31 January, 2016

Walsingham, deep in rural Norfolk, is a curious place. In Jim Kelly’s Death on Demand, for instance, its religious history attracts both serious Christian pilgrims and obscure extremists. Elly Griffiths uses this unusual setting as well, in her new novel The Woman in Blue. A…

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The Woman in Blue, and more...

By DavidPrestidge

28 January, 2016

On the Radar — Here are this week’s new releases, starting with the latest from Elly Griffiths. We’ve also got one for fans of Ann Cleeves and the Shetland series, as well as some blackjack, poisoning and two or three doses of domestic noir… The…

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Triple homicide

By DavidPrestidge

21 January, 2016

On the Radar — Three is the magic number and we start with a book written by James Lee Burke’s daughter, a successful crime novelist in her own right, and central to it are the murders of three people. Speaking of magic, we’ve also got…

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The Newsmakers by Lis Wiehl with Sebastian Stuart

By DavidPrestidge

20 January, 2016

Erica Sparks is a TV news presenter who has come up the hard way. She is not so much from the wrong side of the tracks, as from a place where you couldn’t even see the railway with binoculars. Now, having conquered alcoholism and survived…

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In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

By DavidPrestidge

14 January, 2016

Logan McRae is one of the more endearing Scottish coppers who has risen to fictional fame over the last two decades. Formerly a detective sergeant, he is now in uniform again and has been banished to the bleak north coast of Aberdeenshire, away from his…

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Witness protection?

By DavidPrestidge

14 January, 2016

On the Radar — A true mixture this week with forensics, secret government agencies, crimes out in the American wilderness, and a strange esoteric mystery too. In our lead book, the witness being protected doesn’t seem entirely safe… The Witness by Simon Kernick We kick…

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After You Die by Eva Dolan

By DavidPrestidge

10 January, 2016

From page one of this excellent book, Eva Dolan reveals why she is one of the rising stars of British crime fiction. She announced her presence with the first two books in the series, Long Way Home and Tell No Tales, set in the Hate…

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Ochoco Reach by Jim Stewart

By DavidPrestidge

8 January, 2016

Here we have another PI novel, but if you want mean streets, neon bar signs reflected in rainy sidewalks, and the seedy underbelly of a city where dreams go to die, then look elsewhere. We start in Oregon, where the air is cold and clean,…

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The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths

The Woman in Blue, and more...

Triple homicide

The Newsmakers by Lis Wiehl with Sebastian Stuart

In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride

Witness protection?

After You Die by Eva Dolan

Ochoco Reach by Jim Stewart

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