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In Place of Death by Craig Robertson

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11 March, 2016

Reading crime fiction is an education. Imaginative modes of death notwithstanding, you get the lowdown on some pretty unusual subjects. For example, everything this reviewer knows about geocaching came from the pages of Code, a YA thriller by Kathy and Brendan Reichs. To my ever-expanding…

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Interview: Jeffery Deaver

By DeathBecomesHer

8 March, 2016

“Technology is everywhere: it makes our lives easier, our connections faster and journeys quicker. But in the hands of someone smart enough, every piece of technology can be a murder weapon.” So reads the blurb of the latest Lincoln Rhyme thriller from the pen of…

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Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott

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17 February, 2016

Lies. Even a teeny weeny white one can snowball into something of epic proportions if you’re not careful. But if everyone told the truth, where would crime fiction readers be? Or defence solicitors for that matter? Maggie Taylor is one of the latter, newly arrived…

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13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough

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15 February, 2016

Teenage girls are at best an unpredictable bunch. I’m speaking from experience as I was once one myself. So too was Sarah Pinborough, and that must be why she can so accurately get inside their crazy little heads. Tasha Howland is found lying in the icy…

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Blood Mist by Mark Roberts

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11 February, 2016

Ever heard that definition of a newspaper: black and white and read all over? It’s a description that could equally apply to this tense and totally engrossing novel. Let’s tick off the elements. The white is the snow, which is near blizzard intensity when a…

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The 8th Circle by Sarah Cain

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29 January, 2016

We keep hearing that journalists are a dying breed. If that’s so then Danny Ryan must be the most endangered of them. He might seem a strange choice – after all, this guy won the Pulitzer Prize and has his face emblazoned on buses all…

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Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

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24 January, 2016

It might sound strange for a reviewer to describe rough, tough, bloodthirsty crime thrillers as their comfort zone, but it’s good to step away from the genre you know and love occasionally. Welcome to the world of spies, double agents, double-crossing and danger, evoked in…

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The Darkest Secret by Alex Harwood

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15 January, 2016

Alex Marwood’s latest domestic noir novel is one of those ones where you’ll definitely feel like screaming, “He’s behind you!” like an overexcited child at a pantomime. There were also times when I wanted to grab a character by the arm and ask, “Can’t you…

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In Place of Death by Craig Robertson

Interview: Jeffery Deaver

Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott

Blood Mist by Mark Roberts

The 8th Circle by Sarah Cain

Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

The Darkest Secret by Alex Harwood

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