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Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst

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10 June, 2014

World War II is yet to start, but fascist forces in Germany and Italy are making ominous declarations, and General Franco’s nationalist army is fighting a civil war with the Spanish Republic. The Republic maintains fragile control over Madrid and Barcelona, but they are starved…

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Interview: Ari Marmell

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7 June, 2014

Today we welcome the American author Ari Marmell to the site. The author of Hot Lead, Cold Iron, has a big reputation in horror and fantasy circles, and in his latest novel has blended Celtic mythology with crime fiction. His latest here, Mick Oberon, has…

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Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell

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2 June, 2014

Mick Oberon belongs to the classic school of the pulp PI. He works out of a cramped office with two chairs and a battered filing cabinet. His cases don’t bring in much money, and it sure isn’t glamorous traipsing the mean streets of 1930s Chicago…

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Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton

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30 May, 2014

We featured the author’s debut novel, The Honey Guide, in New Talent November last year, awarding it five stars for the way it skilfully mixed Kenyan tribal politics with African colonial history in a suspenseful whodunnit. Now Crompton returns in his next novel to feature…

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The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin

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26 May, 2014

The year is 1842 and the location Istanbul, the city that until recently was the heart of the Ottoman Empire. But the Sultan has moved his retinue to the Bosphorus, leaving his mother, the valide, behind in Topkapi Palace. Yashim is her confidante and fixer….

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King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

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23 May, 2014

Once again, Max Allan Collins reprises his role as literary executor and with King of the Weeds he has completed another of Mickey Spillane’s unfinished manuscripts. Whereas the last two books produced in this fashion – Lady, Go Die! and Complex 90 – went further…

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Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

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18 May, 2014

Land of Shadows is the first in a new series featuring LAPD homicide detective Elouise Norton. She is married to a computer game programmer, Greg, whose work takes him out of the country a lot, giving him the opportunity to have affairs. Elouise has already…

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The Axeman of Storyville by Heath Lowrence

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5 May, 2014

Now here is a book with some pedigree. In her top five crime novels of 2011, Eva Dolan (aka LoiteringWithIntent) picked as number five The Adventures of Cash Laramie and Gideon Miles, a collection of stories about two US Marshals. Number 4 in that list…

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Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst

Interview: Ari Marmell

Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell

Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton

The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin

King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

The Axeman of Storyville by Heath Lowrence

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