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NTN: The Last of the Smoking Bartenders by CJ Howell

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16 November, 2013

Based partly on his own experiences travelling and working in bars, and wanting to explore the changes happening in the Southwest United States, CJ Howell has come up with his somewhat deluded main character, Tom. Tom has dropped out of society to live as a…

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Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton

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2 October, 2013

Steve Hamilton returns again to the frozen landscape of Paradise, Michigan, for his eighth novel featuring sometime PI Alex McKnight. McKnight used to be a police officer working the mean streets of Detroit, but he left after getting injured in the line of duty. He…

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Letters from a Murderer by John Matthews

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28 September, 2013

If you’re interested in historical crime, whether fact or fiction, then John Matthews has produced a book with a fantastic conceit. The Jack the Ripper case was never solved. The murders of prostitutes in Victorian London’s East End just stopped and many thought that either…

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Brother Kemal

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23 September, 2013

Written by Jakob Arjouni — As previously reported on Crime Fiction Lover, German author Jakob Arjouni died in January from pancreatic cancer, aged just 48. He was a leading literary figure in Germany, and one of the first there to write in the private detective…

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Roman Dalton - Werewolf PI by Paul D Brazill

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20 September, 2013

Drunk on the Moon, the first story in this collection was written by Paul D Brazill for Dark Valentine magazine and he liked the characters so much he invited other writers to contribute their Roman Dalton stories to a later anthology entitled Drunk on the…

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CIS: One for Hell by Jada M Davis

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16 September, 2013

You can be forgiven for wondering where we dug this one up, if you’ve never heard of One for Hell. I must confess it had flown under my radar. I became aware of it reading Heath Lowrance’s blog, Psychonoir, and it seems he first heard…

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Interview: Karen Sandler

By RoughJustice

12 September, 2013

Karen Sandler’s writing career started age nine, with a four-line poem about a pony. Luckily for us, she didn’t stop there. Based in Southern Californian, the mother of two has published 17 successful romance novels, and two books in a YA trilogy. She recently turned…

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CIS: The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price

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4 September, 2013

With a history dating back to the mid-19th century – or even further, depending on who you ask – the crime fiction genre has seen all sorts of trends over the decades, and given birth to a dozen or more sub-genres. However, nothing beats a…

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NTN: The Last of the Smoking Bartenders by CJ Howell

Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton

Letters from a Murderer by John Matthews

Brother Kemal

Roman Dalton - Werewolf PI by Paul D Brazill

CIS: One for Hell by Jada M Davis

Interview: Karen Sandler

CIS: The Labyrinth Makers by Anthony Price

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