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Alex by Pierre Lemaitre

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This may be his first novel translated into English, but Pierre Lemaitre is far from a newcomer to the crime fiction genre. It’s actually the second book in his Verhoeven series following Travail soigné, which won the Cognac Festival’s prize for best new novel in 2006….
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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec

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Written by Fred Vargas — A new Fred Vargas novel is always a happy event for her legions of admirers, whether in the original French or translated into English, and she has won the CWA International Dagger three times. She is not as prolific as other…
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French crime fiction: five to discover

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French readers are voracious consumers of crime fiction. One in five books sold in France is a polar – a shortening of roman policier, which means crime novel. All the major publishing houses have an imprint or series specialising in crime fiction or noir novels, usually…
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Death in Spigg's Wood

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Written by Linda Gruchy — This is a confident and unusual debut novel: you get three types of story for the price of one. I don’t mean that in a bad way, as if the author can’t make up her mind what type of novel…
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The Abduction of Mary Rose

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Written by Joan Hall Hovey — Joan Hall Hovey is not a household name yet, but this Canadian writer has been quietly and steadily publishing suspense novels for the past 10 years. The Abduction of Mary Rose is her fifth and most recent novel, and…
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MarinaSofia: Top five books of 2012

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I’ve never been good with limitations. Faced with the prospect of choosing among all the great books I’ve read this year and selecting just five (FIVE?!?) to highlight, I turned all Oliver Twist. ‘Please, kind sir, can I have more?’  But Crime Fiction Lover’s Master…
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A Cold Red Sunrise

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Written by Stuart M Kaminsky — Kaminsky was one of the most prolific and versatile American mystery writers. During his more than 30 years of writing crime fiction, he created four long-standing detective series set in Hollywood (Toby Peters), Chicago (Lieberman), Florida (Lew Fonesca) and…
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Bloodland by Alan Glynn

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A conspiracy thriller that moves with ease between recession-hit Ireland, the killing fields of Congo and the political wrangling of the United States, Bloodland is a fast, furious and depressingly plausible story. This is not the kind of book I would normally pick up, as I find conspiracy…
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