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Ed's Dead

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Written by Russel D McLean — Jen Carter, the young Glaswegian bookstore clerk who narrates this book, makes one tiny mistake at the novel’s outset. When she comes home late at night to find her apartment door open, she searches the place, kitchen knife in…
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Let the Dead Speak

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Written by Jane Casey — Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan last made an appearance on this site more than two years ago, in a two-star review of The Kill, which I was surprised to discover was written by me! Oddly, in Let The Dead Speak, I felt like…
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Ragdoll by Daniel Cole

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Rag dolls are harmless toys, right? Something for your kid to cuddle up with in bed or to chuck out of the buggy at tantrum time. After reading this book, you’ll never look at them in the same way again. Perhaps the strange truncation of the two words…
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Cambridge Black

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Written by Allison Bruce — Nadine is walking home with her boyfriend after a gig she has played in Cambridge. They head to Theo’s, a big, unfinished, creaky house he inherited from his father. The place is dark and they go to bed, but soon the…
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The Follower

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Written by Koethi Zan — The ‘will they, won’t they?’ storyline is standard issue in romantic tales for page, stage and screen. So why mention it in the context of this book? In truth, there’s precious little romance within the pages of The Follower, though it does feature a twisted…
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