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Kill Me, Darling by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

27 March, 2015

As Mickey Spillane’s literary executor, Max Allan Collins has been doing a great job finding and completing manuscripts by the late author. In fact, this is the fourth such book we’ve reviewed, following on from Lady, Go Die!, Complex 90 and King of the Weeds….

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A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson

By Raven

26 March, 2015

Tapping into the popularity of domestic noir thrillers, debut novelist Ben McPherson makes a brave move as a male writer dipping his toe into a mainly female market. A Line of Blood is told entirely from a father’s point of view. Alex Mercer, his American wife…

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Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

By DavidPrestidge

25 March, 2015

Lionel Davidson and his thrillers have been unjustly neglected in recent years. He blazed a trail with articulate and complex international spy stories just before John Le Carre and Len Deighton achieved celebrity status. However, a few years ago Philip Pullman selected Davidson’s 1994 novel…

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Fatale

By MarinaSofia

23 March, 2015

Written by Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith — It is not fashionable anymore to be a leftist writer of crime fiction. Yet there have been a few crime writers whose works we now consider to be classics who had left-leaning political convictions. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, Dashiel Hammett,…

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Third Voice by Cilla and Rolf Börjlind

By Andre

22 March, 2015

Translated by Hilary Parnfors — Spring Tide was one of our favourite debuts of 2014, and now the sequel has arrived. For the second book in their series, husband-and-wife writing duo Cilla and Rolf Börjlind were always going to face the challenge of how to incorporate the…

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The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel

By crimefictionlover

21 March, 2015

Although he works for Scotland Yard, Inspector Frey is shocked when he’s actually sent to Scotland by none other than Lord Salisbury, the prime minister, to look into the case of a murdered violinist. It’s a sensitive issue because the year is 1888 and the man…

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Black Wood by SJI Holliday

By DeathBecomesHer

20 March, 2015

Deep, dark woods have been the stuff of gripping tales since Red Riding Hood was a lass, so the title of this book is surely enough to alert the reader before they’ve even opened the cover. Twenty-three years ago, in the little town of Banktoun,…

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Ugly Bus by Mike Thomas

By Keith Nixon

16 March, 2015

Martin Finch is a newly promoted sergeant in the Specialist Territory Support Group (TSG), a small team of police who man a riot van and respond when there is public disorder. It’s Boxing Day and Martin, an idealistic copper following in his father’s footsteps, is…

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Kill Me, Darling by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

Fatale

The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel

Black Wood by SJI Holliday

Ugly Bus by Mike Thomas

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