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Thin Ice by Quentin Bates

By MarinaSofia

8 March, 2016

How does Quentin Bates manage to do it all? Translate Ragnar Jonasson’s Icelandic crime series, organise the Iceland Noir festival, and produce on average one murder mystery a year. What’s more, all this productivity seems to be making his writing better and better: self-assured, witty, generating a…

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Murder Never Knocks by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

7 March, 2016

As the creator of the iconic PI Mike Hammer, hardboiled author Mickey Spillane needs no introduction. Nor should Max Allan Collins. The latter’s original series about Quarry, the hit-man who targets other hitmen, is about to become a TV series. At the same time publisher…

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Death in Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson

By DavidPrestidge

6 March, 2016

Hampstead is one of London’s more desirable quarters, with its lofty position, much sought-after properties, and reputation for housing many of the city’s millionaires. Murder does not respect postcode, however, and when the wife of a well-to-do doctor is found dead, the local constabulary compare…

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The Damage Done by James Oswald

By MarinaSofia

5 March, 2016

James Oswald is no longer a well-kept secret for fans of slightly off-beat crime fiction. Now publishing his sixth novel in the Inspector McLean series, he has been called ‘the new Ian Rankin’ and ‘the next big thing in crime fiction’. We spotted his talent…

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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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Thin Ice by Quentin Bates

Murder Never Knocks by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

Death in Profile by Guy Fraser-Sampson

The Damage Done by James Oswald

Black Holes by He Jiahong

The Travelers by Chris Pavone

Speakers of the Dead by J Aaron Sanders

The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti

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