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The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh

By DeathBecomesHer

31 May, 2016

A mother is out in the park, watching her young daughters at play. What on earth could prompt her to suddenly walk away, leaving them alone, frightened and vulnerable? Where has Selena Cole gone to? She has been recently widowed and is grieving. Has she been…

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The Evolution of Fear by Paul E Hardisty

By nagaisayonara

30 May, 2016

Claymore Straker is in trouble. It’s October 1994 and there’s a price on his head. When we last saw him (in Hardisty’s debut The Abrupt Physics of Dying) he gave up an arm in Yemen in exchange for his partner Rania’s life, and now she’s…

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A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

29 May, 2016

It is the summer of 1923, and Madras is so hot that even the locals are finding it hard going. Many of the British civil servants, who still run India, are suffering torments inside their formal suits and starched collars. One employee of the Raj,…

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Last Light by CJ Lyons

By DeathBecomesHer

24 May, 2016

Some of my favourite novels are set in small town America. Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher tale, Make Me, has most of the action taking place in a tight knit community and that sense of claustrophobia plays a huge part in marking the book so gripping….

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Blood Torment by TF Muir

By DeathBecomesHer

21 May, 2016

Back in 2014 I reviewed The Meating Room by the same author and it took months to scour some of the gorier moments of that tale from my subconscious. The latest in the DCI Andy Gilchrist series – we’re now at number six – is a…

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Shank: Tool's Law I by Roy Harper

By DavidPrestidge

18 May, 2016

David Roney has done bad things and he is paying for his transgressions. He is locked up in the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known in music, myth and legend as Parchman Farm. It is full of brutal men, kept under lock and key by equally…

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The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons

By DavidPrestidge

16 May, 2016

Our main character here, DC Max Wolfe, has appeared in The Murder Bag and The Slaughterman. He’s based at West End Central police station, which sits among London’s finest tailor shops on Savile Row. The case Wolfe faces in The Hanging Club bursts into gruesome life when the video of an apparent…

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The Birdwatcher by William Shaw

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 May, 2016

The first lines of this contemporary police procedural set up the defining characteristics of the protagonist: “There were two reasons why William South did not want to be on the murder team. “The first was that it was October. The migrating birds had begun arriving…

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The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh

The Evolution of Fear by Paul E Hardisty

A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart

Last Light by CJ Lyons

Blood Torment by TF Muir

Shank: Tool's Law I by Roy Harper

The Hanging Club by Tony Parsons

The Birdwatcher by William Shaw

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