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The Collaborators by Michael Idov

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Michael Idov’s firecracker espionage thriller starts with an unforgettable scene. A commercial airliner flying from Istanbul to Riga, Latvia, is intercepted over Belarus by a Russian MiG-29, which dogs the plane just 50 yards portside. In case anyone doubted its intent, the MiG speeds forward,…
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Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2024

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Selecting the top five books from the 34 I reviewed for Crime Fiction Lover this past year sounds at first like an impossible task. Probably because I’m selective about what I review, nearly every one of them has some interesting, entertaining, or nicely rendered aspects….
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Havoc by Christopher Bollen

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The ancient Egyptian god Set, son of Earth and Sky, was considered a god of many things, including disorder, violence and foreigners, which is a pretty accurate roadmap for Christopher Bollen’s themes in his new psychological thriller Havoc. Set even has a present-day role to…
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Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

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In Gabriel’s Moon, the new espionage thriller by William Boyd, a brief prologue tells how eight-year-old Gabriel Dax experienced the house fire that took his widowed mother’s life and destroyed his childhood home. The firefighters’ verdict that the cause was Gabriel’s moon-shaped and candle-powered nightlight….
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What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay Close

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Ajay Close’s new crime thriller is a work of fiction inspired by the notorious Yorkshire Ripper case of the 1970s, which gained huge media coverage and prompted a massively inefficient manhunt. In that case, the police eventually identified the killer, but were severely criticised for…
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Sunscreen Shower by JP Rieger

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Sunscreen Shower, the new police procedural by Baltimore author JP Rieger, continues the story of the group of characters introduced in Clonk! as they lurch through life. The main character is Kev Dixit, a South Asian police detective who finds creative uses for his friends’…
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