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Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal

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10 April, 2015

Over the last few years Hard Case Crime has successfully unearthed some lost novels and re-introduced them with attractive throwback pulp covers. Novels such as The Comedy is Finished (written by Donald E Westlake), The Cocktail Waitress (James M Cain) and Grave Descend (Michael Crichton)…

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Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner

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3 April, 2015

Translated by Anthea Bell — Placing the reader in a moral dilemma by asking them to empathise with a transgressive protagonist is something crime fiction has always done particularly well. As readers, we are asked to empathise with every type of criminal, from small time…

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Kill Me, Darling by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

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27 March, 2015

As Mickey Spillane’s literary executor, Max Allan Collins has been doing a great job finding and completing manuscripts by the late author. In fact, this is the fourth such book we’ve reviewed, following on from Lady, Go Die!, Complex 90 and King of the Weeds….

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Knuckleball by Tom Pitts

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19 March, 2015

After last year’s triumphant novel, Hustle, San Francisco native Tom Pitts returns with another hard hitting report from the city’s mean streets. Knuckleball is a novella published by American indie One Eye Press, which was already very much on my radar after publishing Chris Leek’s…

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The Traitor's Mark by DK Wilson

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15 March, 2015

1543 and Tudor England is a dangerous place to be. London has a plague, and elsewhere the English Reformation is creating intrigue and suspicion. In his prime Henry VIII threw off the papal yoke with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but now he’s nearing the…

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The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

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6 March, 2015

The horror and crime genres have so much in common – strong plotting, and bad things happen to people whether they’re good or not – that it’s no surprise that there seems to be an ever increasing number of authors writing supernatural thrillers. However good…

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World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

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3 March, 2015

What an incredible career Dennis Lehane is having. Of his American contemporaries, perhaps only Michael Connelly has managed to sustain a similar degree of commercial and critical success in the crime genre. His early, gritty PI novels in the Kenzie and Gennaro series were followed…

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Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

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26 February, 2015

Because of all the hype surrounding the BBC’s Sherlock, and the popularity of it’s lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, it almost feels like sacrilege to point out that the best Holmes and Watson currently on television appear in an American import called Elementary….

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Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vidal

Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner

Kill Me, Darling by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

Knuckleball by Tom Pitts

The Traitor's Mark by DK Wilson

The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

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