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Tennison by Lynda La Plante

By DavidPrestidge

23 September, 2015

Jane Tennison, a young policewoman fresh out of Hendon Training College, makes the daily journey from her parents’ comfortable flat in Maida Vale to Hackney. It’s a grim place and resolutely working class. Being a woman police constable in 1972 – the gender distinction was…

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On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 September, 2015

Is it OK to say a book by a male author is charming? Regardless of possible gender-bias, this book is. Del and Louise are a couple brought together by crime. They met when Del was robbing the 7-11 in Eagle Nest, New Mexico, where Louise…

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Murder House: Parts 4 and 5

By Andre

21 September, 2015

Written by James Patterson and David Ellis — After three weeks, James Patterson’s serial thriller comes to the end with a double-whammy of installments released via eBook just a few days apart. If you’ve downloaded parts one, two and three of Murder House (all reviewed on…

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The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

By DavidPrestidge

20 September, 2015

One look at the cover of this book, and you know that Chastity has been well and truly corrupted. Frank Westworth’s second Killing Sisters noir novel offers guns, girls, guitars and gruesome violence according to one of the blurbs. JJ Stoner is, among other things,…

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Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

By RoughJustice

18 September, 2015

On top of being one of the greatest baskeball players of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has recently revealed his love of murder mysteries and, in particular, those involving Sherlock Holmes. Here he’s teamed up with co-writer Anna Waterhouse to begin a series exploring Mycroft Holmes,…

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The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block

By crimefictionlover

15 September, 2015

You know what you’re in for within the first few pages with this pulp detective story set in Florida. Block begins the book with his main character, Doak Miller, performing anal sex with the estate agent who’s recently sold him a house in Gallatin County….

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The Drowning Ground by James Marrison

By Keith Nixon

15 September, 2015

When the body of a local farmer is found on the peak of a hill with a pitchfork rammed through his neck Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes is called in. The deceased is Frank Hurst and well known to Downes. Ten years previously Downes investigated…

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Murder House: Part 3 by James Patterson and David Ellis

By Andre

14 September, 2015

Even though it’s a week between installments of Murder House, it’s easy enough to get back into this serial thriller following part one and part two earlier this month (both reviewed on CFL). Although the prose is merely serviceable it does have an immediacy thanks…

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Tennison by Lynda La Plante

On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor

Murder House: Parts 4 and 5

The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block

The Drowning Ground by James Marrison

Murder House: Part 3 by James Patterson and David Ellis

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