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Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton

By RoughJustice

30 May, 2014

We featured the author’s debut novel, The Honey Guide, in New Talent November last year, awarding it five stars for the way it skilfully mixed Kenyan tribal politics with African colonial history in a suspenseful whodunnit. Now Crompton returns in his next novel to feature…

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If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

By Keith Nixon

27 May, 2014

Joe Stark is a trainee detective constable. Based in Greenwich, he has recently transfered from his Hampshire home. But he’s no ordinary copper – Stark is a wounded war veteran, recently returned from several tours, most recently Afghanistan, where he sustained the physical and mental damage that…

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The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin

By RoughJustice

26 May, 2014

The year is 1842 and the location Istanbul, the city that until recently was the heart of the Ottoman Empire. But the Sultan has moved his retinue to the Bosphorus, leaving his mother, the valide, behind in Topkapi Palace. Yashim is her confidante and fixer….

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OxCrimes edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

By Andre

25 May, 2014

If you’ve been a regular visitor to Crime Fiction Lover, you’ll have noticed our exclusive extracts from OxCrimes, an anthology that will raise money for Oxfam’s aid and development work in the UK and abroad. Of course, you’d have to be pretty mean-spirited to find…

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Cold Steal by Quentin Bates

By MarinaSofia

20 May, 2014

This is not the first novel we’ve reviewed in the series featuring indomitable, good-natured Icelandic detective Gunnhildur Gisladottir, and I hope that it won’t be the last one. The author is a dab hand at weaving political and social commentary about post-bankruptcy Iceland into a…

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The Last Refuge by Craig Roberston

By crimefictionlover

19 May, 2014

There’s a telling scene early in Craig Robertson’s latest mystery where the main character, John Callum, is attacked by two birds while hill walking. Once a teacher, he’s arrived on the Faroe Islands from a rougher part of Glasgow and is clearly escaping from something….

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The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham

By DavidPrestidge

17 May, 2014

In Tom Thorne’s last outing, The Dying Hours, having been busted down to uniform for one too many indiscretions, our hero ends up hospitalised with a bullet wound. His boss says, “I’ve got good news and bad news….” Not far into The Bones Beneath we…

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Straight Jacket by Adrian Deans

By nagaisayonara

13 May, 2014

I’m an advocate of judging a book by its cover. When you’re walking through a bookstore, or even browsing on Amazon, a simple, intriguing cover, a good blurb and a couple of choice quotes can really make a book stand out. Straight Jacket by Adrian…

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Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton

If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin

OxCrimes edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

Cold Steal by Quentin Bates

The Last Refuge by Craig Roberston

The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham

Straight Jacket by Adrian Deans

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