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Triple Crown

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Written by Felix Francis — Carrying on his father’s series of horse racing mysteries from the year 2000 – when Dick Francis retired – Felix Francis has fallen into a perfect gallop with them. Triple Crown is his fifth novel writing solo, after having co-written several with his…
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NTN: New blood from North America

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With the US and Canada, North America has the largest and most varied English language crime fiction market. From pulp novels to great literary epics, its authors are dedicated to their craft and the heritage of crime writing on the continent goes all the way back…
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Blonde Ice

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Written by RG Belsky — This is the fourth crime mystery in the series featuring New York Daily News reporter Gil Malloy, dogged practitioner of a fading profession. Following on from The Kennedy Connection, it’s written in the first person and holds you close to the genial…
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Combustion

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Written by Martin J Smith — It’s some kind of progress to see the growth in the number of crime novels and television series that give hardworking male police detectives a woman boss. And, I guess it reflects even more progress that these female supervisors…
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American Quartet

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Written by Warren Adler, narrated by Julie Griffin — You can’t help but enjoy the clever criminal lurking behind the scenes in this 1982 classic. Set in Washington, DC, around 1980, a time when I lived in the Nation’s Capital, this police procedural includes many…
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Casting Bones

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Written by Don Bruns — This current-day police procedural is the first of a new series set in New Orleans. Bruns – with five books in his Caribbean series and seven in the Stuff series – delights in the Big Easy’s atmosphere and culture in creating…
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Shadows the Sizes of Cities

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Written by Gregory W Beaubien — In this tension-filled debut thriller, you get rather quickly to the point where you don’t trust anyone – and that includes first-person narrator Will Clark, who claims to be a travel writer from Chicago. Yet it always seems possible that…
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Ghosts of Havana

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Written by Todd Moss — The long tail of the failed American invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs swings around to sting a married couple in this present-day political thriller – third in a series by former US State Department diplomat Todd Moss. With…
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