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A Time of Torment by John Connolly

By DavidPrestidge

6 April, 2016

John Connolly’s distinctive blend of human villainy and supernatural forces have won him a huge army of admirers since he first came on the scene with Every Dead Thing in 1999. He has attained that enviable status where each new book is a serious event…

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Spur of the Moment by David Linzee

By DavidPrestidge

5 April, 2016

Opera mysteries are a rare thing but St Louis author David Linzee hopes to tap a narrow-but-deep cross-over of interests with his first Renata Radleigh book. Renata is an English opera singer currently employed by the St Louis Opera to sing the relatively minor role…

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Dead Pretty by David Mark

By DeathBecomesHer

31 March, 2016

We have reviewed the Aector McAvoy novels ever since the first, The Dark Winter, appeared in November 2012. Dead Pretty is number five in the series (there’s also been a short story, A Bad Death) and it’s fair to say that life in the city…

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In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings

By DeathBecomesHer

30 March, 2016

Life and death, every crime novel needs ’em. And it’s a particularly dramatic demise that starts the ball rolling in this stunning example of domestic noir. When her father commits suicide on the day after her mother’s funeral, Bella struggles to come to terms with such…

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Dodgers by Bill Beverly

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 March, 2016

A modern crime classic in the tradition of Richard Price’s Clockers, Dodgers is the story of a youthful soldier in the south Los Angeles drug trade. East, a black 16-year-old, is a yardman for a drug house, which means he runs a team of younger…

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A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan

By MarinaSofia

26 March, 2016

Claire McGowan’s Paula Maguire series has already garnered high praise. On the strength of my entry point into the series with this, the fourth novel, I can certainly see why that’s the case. Forensic psychologists have become almost a cliché in recent crime fiction, but…

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Three Little Pigs: A Story by Apostles Doxiadis

By Jeremy Megraw

25 March, 2016

Already known for inventing the genre of mathematical fiction with his peculiar novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture, and with a best-selling graphic novel under his belt in the form of Logicomix, Greek writer Apostolos Doxiadis turns his hand to something equally unique – a…

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Bryant & May - Strange Tide by Christopher Fowler

By DavidPrestidge

24 March, 2016

The Peculiar Crimes Unit is a kind of lost property facility for London’s Metropolitan Police. Orphan crimes, unsolved murders, unexplained disappearances – in short, investigations which would cost the cash-strapped Met valuable man- hours are left on the doorstep of the PCU. Its two senior…

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A Time of Torment by John Connolly

Spur of the Moment by David Linzee

Dead Pretty by David Mark

In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings

Dodgers by Bill Beverly

A Savage Hunger by Claire McGowan

Three Little Pigs: A Story by Apostles Doxiadis

Bryant & May - Strange Tide by Christopher Fowler

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