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Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

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Morgan Hatch’s debut thriller, Gone to Ground, is like a pyramid of Southern California crime and rich in unscrupulous invention. The story takes place mostly in an impoverished area of the East San Fernando Valley and involves the full spectrum of people struggling to get…
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Divinity Games by Lou Gilmond

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If you begin to think Lou Gilmond’s new thriller Divinity Games is actually a report from the near future, you would be forgiven. Many of the plot elements she has assembled in this eye-opening book parallel current trends here in the US, Britain and around…
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Nightswimming by Melanie Anagnos

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Patterson, New Jersey, is the setting for this debut police procedural by Melanie Anagnos, a native of the town. It’s a bittersweet love letter to her native city, the former mill town that is one of the largest in the dense cluster of New York…
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The Final Episode by Lori Roy

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Why one story totally captures my attention and another doesn’t, I can’t always pinpoint. It’s some ineffable yet powerful characteristic that goes beyond plot, character and setting. For whatever reasons Lori Roy’s new thriller, The Final Episode, kept me spellbound. She provides a great set-up…
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Sayulita Sucker by Craig Terlson

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The new crime thriller, Sayulita Sucker by Canadian author Craig Terlson, takes readers for a wild ride to back alleys and dicey neighbourhoods in coastal Mexico that aren’t featured in any guidebook. The story’s protagonist is Luke Fischer, who has featured in three of Terlson’s…
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