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The Kept Woman

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Written by Karin Slaughter — Keeping tabs on the myriad plot strands in a Karin Slaughter novel is like knitting with jelly, and number eight in the American author’s Will Trent series is a particularly slippery customer. Will hasn’t been around since 2013 and Unseen –…
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Blackout

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Written by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Quentin Bates — Icelandic writer Ragnar Jonasson and his young detective Ari Thor had established a considerable fan base, even before Iceland’s football team amazed us with their storming performance. This is the third book published by Orenda in the…
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The Dead House

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Written by Harry Bingham — The body of a young woman is found in the annexe of a tiny church in the sleepy hamlet of Ystradfflur, deep in the remote Welsh countryside. The room has a history going back to medieval times and was a ‘dead house’ where bodies would…
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Underground Airlines

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Written by Ben H Winters – American journalist and teacher Ben H Winters started out writing the kind of literary mash-ups that were en vogue around the turn of the decade. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and Android Karenina were his entries. However, in the world…
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The Silent Dead

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Written by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray — Recently I lamented the decline of the classic police procedural – but how quickly I’ve been proven wrong. The genre appears truly alive and well, not least of all in Japan, where authors such as Hideo…
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Dark Heart, Heavy Soul

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Written by Keith Nixon — Yes, the author is a contributor here on Crime Fiction Lover, but don’t worry, that doesn’t mean he gets an easy ride. Here we have his latest novel of mayhem and mishaps on the Kent coast with his creation Konstantin – a former…
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Hellfire

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Written by Karin Fossum, translated by Kari Dickson — When deep, dark and long-held family secrets finally surface, it can burn through our hearts and minds like hellfire. That’s what Karin Fossum sets out to show in her latest Konrad Sejer novel. It’s not so much a…
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A Hero in France

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Written by Alan Furst — Paris in spring conjures up images of joie de vivre, recalling Sinatra singing about chestnuts in blossom and holiday tables under the trees. But in the spring of 1941 a darkness hangs over Paris – Nazis occupy the much of France, including…
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