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The Dry by Jane Harper

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The town of Kiewarra, somewhere in rural south-eastern Australia, is a community on the brink. A drought is making life extremely difficult for the locals. So nobody is really surprised when farmer Luke Hadler is found with a self-inflicted shotgun wound, his wife and eldest son…
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Blue Light Yokohama

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Written by Nicolas Obregon – What an entertaining debut! Told almost exclusively from the perspective of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kosuke Iwata, it’s a multilayered police procedural involving murder, official corruption, and dangerous secrets. A brief prologue set in 1996 describes the death of…
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Devour

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Written by LA Larkin — When Michael Crichton died in 2008, we lost a fantastic storyteller capable of taking popular science and making it the basis of a gripping thriller. LA Larkin has been compared to the American author and Devour is definitely worth reading…
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Rattle

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Written by Fiona Cummins — When a debut author is an award-winning former showbiz journalist on a national newspaper, you might expect them to write about what they know – vacuous celebrities, star-studded premieres – that kind of thing. But there’s precious little glitz and…
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Kill the Next One

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Written by Federico Axat, translated by David Frye — If you’re looking for a psychological thriller which is heavy on the psychological and somewhat lighter on the thriller element, yet provides enough suspense in the last part of the book, then look no further. This novel by Argentinian writer Federico…
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The Jealous Kind

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Written by James Lee Burke — In this latest stand alone novel, one of America’s most celebrated crime fiction novelists transports us back to 1950s Houston. Many who reminisce love to believe that this decade was a golden period in American history. World War II was over, the economy…
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Her Husband's Lover

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Written by Julia Crouch — A good story should always start with a bang and this one does… literally. You will be thrown straight into the thick of it as Louisa Williams tries desperately to escape her husband, Sam. The pair are driving recklessly along pitch…
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The Nowhere Man

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Written by Gregg Hurwitz — There was considerable interest in Orphan X, the first book in Gregg Hurwitz‘s Evan Smoak series, which rocketed up the best seller lists. Now, there’s even news that Bradley Cooper may star in the movie adaptation. For us, however, the…
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