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Dead Woman Walking

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Written by Sharon Bolton — Standalone novels. Some you can take or leave, while others make a lasting impression. Then there’s a third, little populated, category which contains those books that knock you for six from the get-go and keep on surprising to the very…
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The Chalk Pit

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Written by Elly Griffiths — Some books are let down by the lack of coherent characterisation, featuring players so one-dimensional they would blow away in a gentle breeze. Not so with the work of Elly Griffiths, whose books are populated by creations as well rounded and multi-layered as…
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Rattle

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A new name in crime fiction, and Fiona Cummings’ debut is a gut-churning thrill of a ride. Meet the Bone Collector, an odious specimen who delights in collecting skeletons – the more deformed, the better, and be warned, his method of getting to those bones…
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The Day That Never Comes

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Written by Caimh McDonnell — It was during New Talent November last year that we first met Paul Mulchrone, the failed ‘granny whisperer’ and all-around trouble magnet in Caimh McDonnell’s debut novel A Man With One of Those Faces. Now Paul is back, and, yes, he’s in trouble…
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The Escape

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Written by CL Taylor — Stranger danger is instilled into every child these days, but adults? We don’t need to be told… or do we? Jo Blackmore is in a rush, late to collect her daughter, Elise, from nursery. So when a stranger asks for…
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

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Written by Michael Connelly — “If you’re not a cop, you’re little people,” is a quotation that appears more than once in this book. And Harry Bosch isn’t a cop any more, not really. After a long-winded lawsuit against the LAPD from which Bosch received a…
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