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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

By Andre

23 June, 2014

It’s an audacious move putting the name of your detective in the title of a novel, but Claire DeWitt is a big enough character to justify such confidence. The second novel in Sara Gran’s San Francisco crime series is a strange, heady narrative that draws…

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The Reckoning by Rennie Airth

By DavidPrestidge

22 June, 2014

We are in an England slowly trying to come to terms with the fact that, despite sitting on the victorious side of the table after a brutal war, it is in a mess. Food is still rationed. Whole districts of London and other major cities…

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The Hunting Dogs by Jorn Lier Horst

By Jeremy Megraw

21 June, 2014

The Norwegian detective William Wisting is an upright, honest, and morally unambiguous good cop with an impeccable career seeking truth and justice. So it comes as a backhanded slap when his own department is accused of corruption, and worse, of planting evidence. The news comes…

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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

By Andre

19 June, 2014

Last summer it was revealed that JK Rowling had a secret identity as crime writer Robert Galbraith, a cunning ruse to prove she wasn’t just relying on her name to get published. Galbraith had already been named one to watch by Val McDermid and Mark…

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Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

By nagaisayonara

16 June, 2014

Written by CS Boag — The Case of the Horses for Corpses is the third in CS Boag’s Mister Rainbow series, a collection about a classic hardboiled PI living in modern day Sydney. Mister Rainbow (or Rain for short) is a down-and-out private eye in…

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Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey

By Raven

11 June, 2014

And so after 12 novels, 16 short stories, two television adaptations and four radio plays, Darkness, Darkness marks the final appearance of John Harvey’s stalwart and long serving detective, Charlie Resnick. Published on the 30th anniversary of the Miner’s Strike, the story centres on this…

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Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst

By RoughJustice

10 June, 2014

World War II is yet to start, but fascist forces in Germany and Italy are making ominous declarations, and General Franco’s nationalist army is fighting a civil war with the Spanish Republic. The Republic maintains fragile control over Madrid and Barcelona, but they are starved…

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A Killing of Angels by Kate Rhodes

By Andre

9 June, 2014

It’s several years since the financial crisis hit but it seems there’s no let-up in the banker bashing. In the case of the second book in the Alice Quentin series, bankers have to endure a bit more than a bashing for their sins. A Killing…

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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

The Reckoning by Rennie Airth

The Hunting Dogs by Jorn Lier Horst

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey

Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst

A Killing of Angels by Kate Rhodes

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