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Deep Roots by Sung J Woo

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Deep Roots is an entertaining soft-boiled PI story that follows on from Sung J Woo’s crime Skin Deep and features Korean-American detective Siobhan O’Brien. If the name and the ethnicity seem at odds, it’s because Siobhan was adopted by an Irish-Norwegian couple in Minnesota, as…
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Come With Me by Erin Flanagan

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In the new psychological thriller Come with Me by Erin Flanagan, a woman, put simply, is forced to grow up. She hasn’t realised she needed to until circumstances make her come to terms with her responsibilities. Taking charge of your own life, when you’re accustomed…
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Her, Too by Bonnie Kistler

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Perhaps inevitably, the #MeToo movement would uncover complicated situations that go beyond simply punishing sexual predators – which is hardly a simple matter itself – and in Bonnie Kistler’s new thriller, Her, Too, the author reveals a bundle of them. When the story opens, Boston-based…
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Retribution by Robert McCaw

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Retribution is the fifth in Robert McCaw’s series of police procedurals set on the Big Island of Hawai`i that feature Chief Detective Koa Kāne. If you’re in the mood for a visit to Hawai`i, get hold of these books! The atmosphere is thick with tropical…
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The Good Ones by Polly Stewart

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Two ways to sum up the experience of reading Polly Stewart’s mystery/thriller The Good Ones come immediately to mind. One is: ‘Everyone’s a hero of their own story,’ and narrator Nicola Bennett is fixated on what she sees as her own role in the disappearance…
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