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After the Silence by Jake Woodhouse

By DavidPrestidge

2 May, 2014

Bleak, pre-Christmas Amsterdam. The twinkling of fairy lights in festive windows does nothing to hide the obscenity of the body found hanging from a pulley above the frozen waters of a canal. Inspector Jaap Rykel, fresh from the indignity of having his houseboat broken into,…

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The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

By Keith Nixon

1 May, 2014

It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since The Devil’s Playground first came out. The book received widespread acclaim and was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger, which goes to a top new writer each year. With this debut novel, crime fiction…

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker

By Andre

30 April, 2014

Translated by Sam Taylor — This thriller arrives with a lot of hype. It also has the usually reassuring presence of imprint MacLehose Press, which specialises in translated fiction from Pierre Lemaitre, Antonin Varenne and, of course, Stieg Larsson. The book is about an American…

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Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2014

As the Edgar Award-winning author John Straley mentions in his notes at the end of this book, he considers his writing to be screwball comedy as much as it is crime fiction. Indeed, Cold Storage, Alaska is full of unusual and ironic things that’ll make…

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Duffy by Dan Kavanagh

By Andre

27 April, 2014

You don’t find many crime novels with a blurb – “exciting, funny and refreshingly nasty” – by Martin Amis. That literary connection is a clue to the real identity of Dan Kavanagh. According to the entertaining yet spurious author biography, Kavanagh is an Irishman who…

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My Criminal World by Henry Sutton

By Keith Nixon

25 April, 2014

David Slavitt is a man whose life is in slow decline. He’s a full time writer of crime novels – his debut was a smash, but since then each has sold in smaller and smaller quantities. As Slavitt’s star has waned in the crime world…

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Wolf by Mo Hayder

By Raven

23 April, 2014

The queen of nail-shredding tension returns with Wolf, the seventh novel to feature DI Jack Caffery and the fifth in the Walking Man series. We have a convoluted plot that uses as its backdrop the visceral – in all senses of the word – murder…

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The Accident by CL Taylor

By DeathBecomesHer

20 April, 2014

Most of us know someone with an apparently perfect life. They’re happily married, with a lovely home and clever, well behaved offspring. But, as we crime fiction fans know all too well, appearances can be deceptive. Sue Taylor has a life that many would envy….

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After the Silence by Jake Woodhouse

The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker

Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

Duffy by Dan Kavanagh

My Criminal World by Henry Sutton

Wolf by Mo Hayder

The Accident by CL Taylor

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