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Play the Red Queen by Juris Jurjevics

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19 October, 2020

This posthumous publication is Jurjevics’ third novel. The co-founder of Soho Press died in 2018 from the long term effects of Agent Orange on his heart. Like so many other Vietnam veterans, Jurjevics’ experiences of that war stayed with him for the rest of his…

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Rattlesnake Rodeo by Nick Kolakowski

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16 October, 2020

The last time we saw Idaho bounty hunter Jake Tapper, his wife Janine, and his gun-running sister Frankie, they were walking away from a deadly encounter with some of the richest and most powerful men in Idaho. That story was told in Boise Longpig Hunting…

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Dear Child by Romy Hausmann

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5 October, 2020

When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously declared “I know it when I see it,” he was referring to obscenity and whether or not the Louis Malle film The Lovers could be categorised as such. I have much the same relationship with psychological thrillers. An…

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Interview: Seraphina Nova Glass talks about her debut crime novel

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29 September, 2020

On 6 October, Titan Books is releasing Someone’s Listening, a debut crime novel by American author Seraphina Nova Glass. Based in Texas, Seraphina is a script writer who teaches playwriting at the University of Texas, Arlington. She’s taken that background in film and theatre, added…

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Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

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19 September, 2020

Winter Counts are pictorial histories and calendars common among some Native American tribes. For Virgil Wounded Horse, of the Lakota Nation and living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Colorado, they represent one of the few comfortable memories of his tribal culture. He would make…

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One Eye Open by Paul Finch

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20 August, 2020

Paul Finch’s latest novel is a standalone thriller, but like his bestselling Heck series, One Eye Open is a police procedural. On the face of it, the traffic police might not seem the most promising division to write a thriller in, but Finch has once…

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When These Mountains Burn by David Joy

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17 August, 2020

When These Mountains Burn is a rural noir crime novel set in the Appalachian Mountain communities that have been forgotten and left behind by urban America. The area has been ravaged by heroin, synthetic opioids and crystal meth. It’s a brutal, pitiless story, told in…

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The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz

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11 August, 2020

Translated by Nick Caistor — In 1996 the Basque city of Vitoria was terrorised by a serial killer, according to The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz. Eight people were killed, including two babies. The killer placed his victims in pairs in…

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Play the Red Queen by Juris Jurjevics

Rattlesnake Rodeo by Nick Kolakowski

Dear Child by Romy Hausmann

Interview: Seraphina Nova Glass talks about her debut crime novel

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

One Eye Open by Paul Finch

When These Mountains Burn by David Joy

The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz

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