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NTN: Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman

By Andre

1 November, 2013

New talent is inevitably associated with precocious writers who started young and stuck at it. Look at Roger Hobbs, now the proud owner of a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Ghostman, which he wrote while still at college. Hanna Jameson penned Something You Are,…

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Others of My Kind by James Sallis

By crimefictionlover

28 October, 2013

Jenny Rowan is a survivor. At a young age she was abducted and kept in a box for two years by a paedophile. He’d push the box under his bed, getting it out now and again to feed her ice cream sundaes and/or abuse her….

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The Blotting Book by EF Benson

By MarinaSofia

21 October, 2013

You can tell at once the age of this book by its title: who in the 21st century knows what a blotting book is? Who, indeed, even uses a fountain pen nowadays? This mystery novel was written just over 100 years ago, and yet there…

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Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes

By DeathBecomesHer

14 October, 2013

After seven years as a police intelligence analyst, Elizabeth Haynes is currently taking a career break. And that’s great news for fans of her books, because it means she can concentrate on writing more novels. Her first, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon’s Book of…

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Where the Dead Men Go by Liam McIlvanney

By LoiteringWithIntent

11 October, 2013

Somehow I managed to miss All the Colours of the Town, Liam McIlvanney’s debut, but after reading a couple of pages of his latest I went straight to Amazon and bought a copy, because this man writes up a storm. Where the Dead Men Go,…

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Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

By Andre

10 October, 2013

Having won the CWA Gold Dagger for her audacious 2010 debut Blacklands, about a 12-year-old boy who corresponds with a jailed child killer, Belinda Bauer promised to be one of those writers capable of leading the reader into some unsettling places. She’s done it again…

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Solo by William Boyd

By Andre

8 October, 2013

Solo is the latest of the James Bond continuation novels, which far outnumber the original books but have never matched Ian Fleming for unflinching brutality, thrilling action sequences and an obsessive accretion of period detail relating to fine dining, men’s tailoring and posh booze. William…

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The Famous and the Dead by T Jefferson Parker

By DavidPrestidge

5 October, 2013

You may accuse T Jefferson Parker of many things, but of writing a humdrum crime procedural? A defiant cry of ‘not guilty!’ will reverberate around the courtroom. The evidence for the defence? In no particular order, a woman in her 90s who lives down a…

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NTN: Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman

Others of My Kind by James Sallis

The Blotting Book by EF Benson

Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes

Where the Dead Men Go by Liam McIlvanney

Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer

Solo by William Boyd

The Famous and the Dead by T Jefferson Parker

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