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Death Angel by Linda Fairstein

By DeathBecomesHer

28 July, 2013

Have you ever been lucky enough to take a tour with a Blue Badge guide? I once toured Covent Garden with one, and they tell you all kinds of little snippets that you’d never find in a guide book, really bringing history to life. Reading Death…

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Red Winter by Dan Smith

By LoiteringWithIntent

27 July, 2013

Dan Smith’s previous novel The Child Thief, an intense thriller set among the Bolshevik-infested forests of 1930’s Ukraine, was one of my novels of 2012, so I had high expectations for Red Winter. And I’m glad to say that it more than lived up to…

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The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

By Andre

24 July, 2013

The mystery surrounding Robert Galbraith was solved this month when it was revealed that this debut novelist was in fact JK Rowling writing under a pseudonym. The Cuckoo’s Calling is the Harry Potter author’s first foray into crime fiction. So is it any good? After…

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Scafell by Matthew Pink

By DavidPrestidge

22 July, 2013

Stephen ‘Sparky’ Markham is washed up in all kinds of ways. After a career in the forces, and a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London, he has pretty much dropped out, and has taken refuge in his inherited cottage on the fells above Wastwater,…

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Bed of Nails

By MarinaSofia

21 July, 2013

Written by Antonin Varenne — French crime fiction is currently being touted as the next big thing, and here is an unusual debut novel to tantalise your tastebuds. The author’s work has been compared to that of Fred Vargas, who this week shared the CWA…

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The Last Whisper in the Dark

By RoughJustice

17 July, 2013

Last year’s literary crime thriller The Last Kind Words went down a storm with us. We reviewed it and gave it five stars, and MyBookishWays included it in her top five books of 2012. In that book career, thief Terrier Rand was called home to…

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Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson

By DavidPrestidge

16 July, 2013

In a cutting which once carried a railway line that Dr Beeching took his knife to in the 1960s, a corpse is discovered. It is Gavin Millar, a disgraced former lecturer. Most oddly, despite his emaciated and scruffy appearance, he was carrying £5000 in cash….

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Missing in Rangoon by Christopher G Moore

By PulpCurry

14 July, 2013

For well over 20 years Canadian lawyer turned crime writer Christopher G Moore has chronicled change in Thailand and the surrounding region through the character of Bangkok-based American private investigator, Vincent Calvino. Moore has penned 13 Calvino books. Most of them are set in Thailand,…

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Death Angel by Linda Fairstein

Red Winter by Dan Smith

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Scafell by Matthew Pink

Bed of Nails

The Last Whisper in the Dark

Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson

Missing in Rangoon by Christopher G Moore

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