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Camille by Pierre Lemaitre

By MarinaSofia

10 March, 2015

Translated by Frank Wynne — After taking the tropes of serial killers and kidnappings and turning them on their heads, in his latest book, Camille, bestselling French crime author Pierre Lemaitre takes on the heist story and subverts our expectations completely. This is our third encounter…

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No Place to Die by Clare Donoghue

By Jeremy Megraw

9 March, 2015

DCI Jane Bennett has her hands full. Ever since the Southeast London murder squad’s last big case, her boss DC Mike Lockyer has not been the same. His career may even be threatened by his handling of the now infamous Stevens case, which formed the…

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After the Crash

By MarinaSofia

7 March, 2015

Written by Michel Bussi, translated by Sam Taylor — In 1980 an airplane flying from Istanbul to Paris crashes in the Jura mountains on the Franco-Swiss border. All 168 people on board are killed. The sole, almost miraculous survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. It turns out…

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The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

By RoughJustice

6 March, 2015

The horror and crime genres have so much in common – strong plotting, and bad things happen to people whether they’re good or not – that it’s no surprise that there seems to be an ever increasing number of authors writing supernatural thrillers. However good…

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The Dangerous Game by Mari Jungstedt

By DavidPrestidge

1 March, 2015

Translated by Tiina Nunnally — While on a photoshoot for a top fashion magazine on the beautiful Swedish island of Gotland, the chief photographer Markus Sandberg is found in his cabin within an inch of death. He has been brutally attacked with an axe. It’s…

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The Black Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

By Raven

27 February, 2015

Author John Banville has won the Booker Prize. Here he writes as Benjamin Black, embarking on a homage to Raymond Chandler by recreating Philip Marlowe in a story meant to follow on from the 1953 novel The Long Goodbye. Using a title Chandler might even have used…

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Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

By RoughJustice

26 February, 2015

Because of all the hype surrounding the BBC’s Sherlock, and the popularity of it’s lead actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, it almost feels like sacrilege to point out that the best Holmes and Watson currently on television appear in an American import called Elementary….

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Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton

By Keith Nixon

25 February, 2015

Van Shaw, US Army Ranger veteran, steps off a plane in Seattle drawn back by a note from his estranged grandfather, Dono, 10 years after he suddenly left. He hasn’t heard from Dono or been home since then, undertaking tours in various war-torn theatres as…

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Camille by Pierre Lemaitre

No Place to Die by Clare Donoghue

After the Crash

The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

The Dangerous Game by Mari Jungstedt

The Black Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

Elementary: The Ghost Line by Adam Christopher

Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton

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