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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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Interview: CS DeWildt

By RoughJustice

23 February, 2015

Chris DeWildt’s debut novel Love You to a Pulp is a fantastic new example of rural noir that will leave you wanting to go back to your shelves and start digging out those old Jim Thompson books. We reviewed the book here, and invited this young…

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Nobody Walks by Mick Herron

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17 February, 2015

Set in the a murky, satirised world of espionage, Mick Herron’s most recent novels, Slow Horses and Dead Lions, featured a fictional branch of MI5 called Slough House whose employees were only one more screw-up from losing their jobs. The books were uniformly well received, and…

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Love You to a Pulp by DS DeWildt

By RoughJustice

16 February, 2015

One of the things which makes book reviewing such a rewarding thing to do is the opportunity to discover great new writers and pass on their work to others. Sometimes a book comes along, from an author you’ve never read before, that just blows you…

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The Devil You Know by Elisabeth de Mariaffi

By RoughJustice

30 January, 2015

Canada is often thought of as a gentler, safer, and dare I say it, more boring version of its southern neighbour. Canadian citizens are less brash, perhaps less overtly patriotic than Americans, and the country’s gun laws are tighter. At least, the kind of violent…

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Dark Briggate Blues by Chris Nickson

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21 January, 2015

With his in-depth knowledge of Leeds and its history, and a love for writing novels set in various past eras, Chris Nickson is making quite a name for himself in crime circles. Both Gods of Gold (Victorian) and The Constant Lovers (1730s) were well received by our reviewers. Will…

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The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

Interview: CS DeWildt

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron

Love You to a Pulp by DS DeWildt

The Devil You Know by Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Dark Briggate Blues by Chris Nickson

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