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Truth Dare Kill by Gordon Ferris

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Over the last five years, Gordon Ferris has established himself as a distinctive Scottish voice in crime fiction. He’s written one successful series featuring private detective Danny McRae, and another with investigative journalist Douglas Brodie. Truth Dare Kill was his debut, though it’s worth revisiting…
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Saint Homicide by Jake Hickson

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Saint Homicide opens with the narrator of this tale, Daniel, in prison. He explains that he’s guilty of the crime he’s been convicted for and this gritty noir novella explains how he ended up inside. Daniel is an anti-abortionist, somewhere in America’s Bible Belt. So…
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Men at Night by Kara Voorhees

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Regular crime fiction readers will probably have lost count of the number of ‘grizzled police detective tries to solve one last case before his retirement’ stories they’ve come across. Men at Night fits the description too, but it is to Kara Voorhees’s credit that she…
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Treachery by SJ Parris

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It’s been two years since Sacrilege, the last book in critic and feature writer SJ Parris’ Giordano Bruno series. Set in Elizabethan times, Treachery picks up the story one year later and we find Bruno and his friend, Sir Philip Sidney, heading to Plymouth. Their…
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Never Look Back

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Written by Clare Donoghue — Detective Inspector Mike Lockyer, working in South East London, has his hands full with a triple murder. A serial killer is on the loose and the victims, all young women, have similar profiles. And it’s assumed the killer is just…
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