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Joe Country

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Written by Mick Herron — Summer brings with it the sixth novel in Mick Herron’s acclaimed series about the MI6 cast-offs and screw-ups who together make up the personnel of Slough House. Jackson Lamb has been the central character in the series, but this time…
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Pity the Dead

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Written by Keith Nixon — To his embarrassment, it requires a bobby to let DI Solomon Gray know that something untoward is happening to the junkies in Ramsgate. Gray is an old-fashioned copper, much more comfortable working the streets than a computer, and to find…
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This Storm

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Written by James Ellroy — In this follow-up to 2014’s somewhat overlong Perfidia, the author moves his story about the Irish cop Dudley Smith on a few weeks to the early months of 1942. The action, while set predominantly in Los Angeles, is extended to…
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Interview: Fran Dorricott

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The clamour for diversity in fiction has never been greater, and Fran Dorricott’s debut, After the Eclipse, promises a welcome and sympathetic portrayal of queer characters embedded in a crime story set in small town Derbyshire. The novel, which examines the abduction of two young…
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The Revenant Express

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Written by George Mann — The Revenant Express returns us to the Victorian steampunk universe found in George Mann’s Newbury and Hobbes novels, which the author last visited in 2013 with The Executioner’s Heart. The year is 1903, and Sir Maurice Newbury, adventurer and occult…
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The Elegant Lie

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Written by Sam Eastland — The year is 1949 and Nathan Carter walks out of prison in Cologne and into the nascent Cold War. Back in the States, Carter was an undercover police detective tasked with infiltrating union dock workers. His cover was so deep…
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Cold Bones

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Written by David Mark — Hull, on the east coast of England, may not seem the most obvious setting for crime fiction, but local author David Mark is still going strong eight novels into the DS Aector McAvoy series. Mark was a crime reporter before…
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