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Wolves in the Dark

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Private detective Varg Veum is back and Norwegian author Gunnar Staalesen is at the top of his game and this book will delight the initiated and uninitiated. Veum has spent last four years in an aquavit haze, chasing away the memories of his wife’s death. A…
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley

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A literary crime novel that transcends the genre, Hannah Tinti’s story is about Samuel Hawley, bearer of scars from the dozen bullet wounds acquired in encounters with worse criminals, and Loo his teenage daughter. He’s raised Loo single-handed and on-the-go across America since the tragic…
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What My Body Remebers

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Elsa Nygaard’s earliest memory is her mother’s murder, and the killer was Elsa’s father. She is now a single mother and ward of the state here in this unique novel by Agnete Friis. Her violent temper forces her to flee from the authorities with her…
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The Lighthearted Quest

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Ann Bridge’s series of novels featuring dilettante journalist Julia Probyn are unfairly forgotten gems of the later Golden Age – wonderfully revived by Bloomsbury Reader. In the first book in the collection, Julia sets off to Morocco to find her cousin, next in line for…
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The Deepest Grave

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If you haven’t yet met Harry Bingham’s DS Fiona Griffiths you are missing out on getting to know one of crime fiction’s most compelling detectives. She’s abrasive, rude, outspoken but absolutely better for knowing. In this sixth book in the Griffiths series, the Welsh DS…
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Body Breaker

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Mike Craven’s DI Avison Fluke wouldn’t ordinarily spend his weekend on a golf course, but his team has been called in to investigate a severed hand found lying on the third green at a Cumbria links. Soon they find the rest of the corpse and…
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Sympathy for the Devil

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William Shaw’s Sympathy for the Devil sways to the samba beat of 1960s London as DS Cathal Breen investigates the death of a Polish prostitute. Soon the intelligence services and higher forces are taking an interest and Breen smells a conspiracy as he tries to…
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Rattle

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A new name in crime fiction, and Fiona Cummings’ debut is a gut-churning thrill of a ride. Meet the Bone Collector, an odious specimen who delights in collecting skeletons – the more deformed, the better, and be warned, his method of getting to those bones…
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