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Black Holes by He Jiahong

By MarinaSofia

4 March, 2016

Translated by Emily Jones — We have an unusual little gem for you today: crime fiction set in the rapidly-changing China of the mid-1990s and written by an author who is one of China’s foremost authorities on criminal justice and a professor of law at…

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The Travelers by Chris Pavone

By RoughJustice

4 March, 2016

In an expertly assembled first few chapters, Chris Pavone sets the scene nicely. The Travelers of the title is a magazine, and so much more. It’s a brand, an idea, an aspiration, an experience and, indeed, a lifestyle. You could say it’s the Grand Dame…

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Speakers of the Dead by J Aaron Sanders

By DavidPrestidge

2 March, 2016

Writers as varied as Dashiell Hammett and Oscar Wilde have been called into action by crime fiction authors. J Aaron Sanders recruits America’s greatest poet Walt Whitman for his debut crime novel, Speakers of the Dead. The author is well suited to his subject, with…

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The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti

By MarinaSofia

29 February, 2016

You may remember Dr Brooke Magnanti as Belle de Jour from just over a decade ago, when she was writing shrewd, funny and searingly honest accounts of her life as a high-class call girl. Her identity was revealed with some fuss and scandal in 2009,…

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Jump Cut by Libby Fischer Hellmann

By Vicki Weisfeld

28 February, 2016

In Jump Cut, Chicago-based thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann brings her outspoken heroine Ellie Foreman back for another exciting adventure after a 10-year hiatus. In the new book, video producer Foreman and her team have been hired to produce a series of puff pieces about…

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Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts by AK Benedict

By Andre

25 February, 2016

Here’s a crime novel where you get more than you bargained for. Jonathan Dark is a cross-dressing Metropolitan Police detective grieving over a dead colleague, his failed marriage and the woman he failed to save from a violent stalker. Inevitably, his personal life has taken…

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Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze

By Vicki Weisfeld

24 February, 2016

This is a 2016 reissue by The New York Review of Books of a Mississippi newspaperman’s best noir crime novel, originally published in 1954. Black Wings Has My Angel is a roller-coaster of a read; lightning fast and a lot of fun. At the outset,…

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Retribution by Steffen Jacobsen

By DavidPrestidge

24 February, 2016

Translated by Charlotte Barslund — Denmark is in a state of shock. A year after Europe’s gravest terrorist atrocity, the security forces, police and intelligence agencies have yet to bring anyone to justice. The young Arab man, who atomised himself and murdered more than 1,000 holidaymakers when he…

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Black Holes by He Jiahong

The Travelers by Chris Pavone

Speakers of the Dead by J Aaron Sanders

The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti

Jump Cut by Libby Fischer Hellmann

Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts by AK Benedict

Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze

Retribution by Steffen Jacobsen

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