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The Disappeared by Sibel Hodge

By DeathBecomesHer

19 January, 2019

How far would you go for a bar of chocolate? I’m guessing not as far as some of the people in this thought-provoking novel, which has the shocking subject of child slavery on cocoa plantations at its dark heart. We’re mere weeks into 2019 and…

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Scrublands by Chris Hammer

By DeathBecomesHer

14 January, 2019

In recent years, Australia has been the setting for some of crime fiction’s best-received novels. Think of The Dry by Jane Harper, Helen FitzGerald’s The Cry and Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic and you’ll get my drift. Time to add Scrublands to the list. Out…

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Dark Sacred Night

By DeathBecomesHer

8 January, 2019

Michael Connelly does a sterling job of melding old stager and newcomer together in this cracker of a book which finds the American crime author at the top of his game. We first met LAPD Detective Renee Ballard in 2017 in The Late Show, now…

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Bleak Harbor

By DeathBecomesHer

8 January, 2019

That ol’ chestnut, the missing teenager plotline, has been rolled out again but prepare for something a bit different in this stand alone tale from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist turned author Bryan Gruley. Autistic 15-year-old Danny has gone missing from his home in Bleak Harbor, Michigan…

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Forger's Revenge

By DeathBecomesHer

7 January, 2019

Written by Leah Devlin — Ella Winston is just out of prison, banged up for something she did… and also for something she didn’t do. The former art forger is on the straight and narrow now, but she’s also on the hunt for evidence that’ll…

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The Tattoo Thief

By DeathBecomesHer

2 January, 2019

Written by Alison Belsham — When I were a lass, tattoos were just for sailors. Move on X years and they’re the must-have fashion accessory for all and sundry. Crime fiction has dabbled in the area before – David Mark’s Original Skin springs to mind and…

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