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The Second Cut by Louise Welsh

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Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room was a sensation when it was published in 1999. It was a brilliant debut from a provocative new voice in British crime fiction, infusing a Gaelic vibe with a creepy gothic air. Tartan noir credentials firmly established, there was a…
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Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

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American author Marie Rutkoski makes the transition from YA to adult fiction look simple in this hugely satisfying and emotionally fraught thriller about the broken lives caught up in the hunt for a missing dancer and her abductor in turn-of-the-century Illinois. Each chapter in the…
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The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

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After exposing the machinations within an amateur dramatics group in her bestselling debut novel The Appeal, Janice Hallett turns her attention to the sinister side of classic children’s literature in The Twyford Code. While Hallett revamped the epistolary novel format with The Appeal by telling…
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Opal Country by Chris Hammer

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Gold standard Outback noir from the rich opal fields of barren northern Queensland, Australia. Chris Hammer’s new stand alone tale may well be his best writing to date and that’s saying something as it follows his engrossing and original Scrublands trilogy. Like those doorstop novels,…
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