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Beton Rouge

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Written by Simone Buchholz, translated by Rachel Ward — If you haven’t read the first book to appear in English by award-winning German author Simon Buchholz, Blue Night, then I suggest you stop right now and go and order it. Admittedly, it is not essential…
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Kingdom of the Blind

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Written by Louise Penny — In a rather moving afterword to the book, Louise Penny admits that she thought she was done with her beloved creation, Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté du Québec. The author says that for a long time after her…
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Death in Shangri-La

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Written by Yigal Zur, translated by Sara Kitai — Israeli thriller writer Yigal Zur skillfully uses both an exotic setting and ongoing international turmoil to create a high level of tension in this fast-paced thriller. Published in Israel in 2012, Death in Shangri-La is the…
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The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr

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Translated by John Brownjohn — The first season of the twisty crime show The Sinner, starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman, makes for addictive binge-watching. It also made our list of the best crime shows of 2018. Although produced in the US, the programme has…
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The One That Got Away

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Written by Joe Clifford — Joe Clifford has an innovative premise for this crime thriller about what turned out to be the last victim of a serial killer who plagued a dreary upstate New York town called Reine. Alex Salerno was 17 when she was…
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Last Lullaby

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Written by Carol Wyer — The pretty pastel shades of the cover of this book belie what lurks inside. DI Natalie Ward is back, and about to tackle her most gruesome case yet. We met Ward earlier this year in The Birthday. She’s a committed…
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The Whisperer

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Written by Karin Fossum — You are going to die. It’s a fact. It’s also a frightening statement and one that can and should be taken as a threat when it’s written on a note that’s been shoved into your mailbox. Just such a note…
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The Feral Detective

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Written by Jonathan Lethem — Noted author Jonathan Lethem, who has been called one of America’s greatest storytellers, returns to crime fiction with his new novel, The Feral Detective. It opens with the narrator, Manhattanite Phoebe Siegler, searching for her best friend’s teenage daughter, Arabella,…
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