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Human Remains

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Written by Elizabeth Haynes — Eleanor Rigby is one of my favourite Beatles songs, with its haunting lyric, “All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” You might dismiss it as a sorrowful composition rooted in the 1960s, but that’s where you’d be…
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Bad Credit

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Written by AS Clarke — Stopping for a simple cup of takeaway coffee on his way to the morning train is something that Teddy West does regularly, without incident, until one day he becomes the target of identity theft. When the barista at the coffee…
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Death on a Longship

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Written by Marsali Taylor — Crime novels set in Shetland are very much like buses – you wait for ages, then two come along together! I had just finished Ann Cleeves’ Dead Water when Death on a Longship appeared on my Kindle screen. Could I cope…
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Dead Water

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Written by Ann Cleeves — Some books wouldn’t be the same if they were set somewhere else. Imagine, for example, Sherlock Holmes looking for clues in Bradford, or Morse meandering around Manchester. The same applies to Dead Water, which really wouldn’t work outside of the…
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Never Saw It Coming

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Written by Linwood Barclay — My introduction to the work of top-selling author Linwood Barclay is a slim volume, which I found somewhat off-putting, being one of those make ’em thick, read ’em quick kind of girls. But I hadn’t reckoned on Barclay’s consummate skill as…
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Kinsey and Me

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Written by Sue Grafton – Best known for her ‘Alphabet’ series of crime novels featuring feisty female private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton will be a name familiar to many crime fiction followers. It’s more than 30 years since we were introduced to Kinsey, and…
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Too Dark to Sleep

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Written by Dianne Gallagher — You might not have heard of self-published author Dianne Gallagher, but if the quality of her debut crime novel Too Dark to Sleep is anything to go by, her name will spread quickly in crime fiction loving circles. It’s the first…
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