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The Long Fire by Meghan Tifft

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This sparkling debut mystery is narrated by the book’s protagonist, Natalie Krupin, a 27-year-old woman adrift in a hazy, smoke-obscured world in and around Worcester, Massachusetts. Her mysteries revolve around her gypsy mother, dead in a fire that destroyed her parents’ home; her unkempt father,…
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Interview: Meghan Tifft

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Meghan Tifft works in the English Department at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, and has extended her linguistic abilities by penning a new crime novel. The Long Fire comes out on 11 August and features an unusual character in smart-ass loner Natalie Krupin….
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The Breaks by Eden Sharp

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In the hardboiled thriller The Breaks we meet two engaging and memorable characters – private investigator Angela McGlynn and her sometime associate John Knox. McGlynn is self-assured and sassy, a computer hacking whiz and martial arts expert, not above using her attractiveness to lure bad guys into compromising…
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Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates

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This rather short (200-page) psychological thriller is told as a first-person narrative by successful mystery author Andrew J Rush. Rush thinks of himself with quote marks around his name, perhaps because he’s beginning to realise identity is more ephemeral than he’s heretofore believed. We soon learn he’s…
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The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi audiobook

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Narrated by Almarie Guerra — In the American Southwest, the states of Nevada, Arizona, and California are battling over a dwindling water supply caused by climate change, population pressure, and brazen political brokering. States have declared their sovereignty, closed their borders, and guard them with armed…
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