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The Impossible Dead

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This is the follow-up to 2009’s The Complaints, which introduced us to Malcolm Fox and his internal investigation unit. Fox’s group is something of a renegade band, disliked even by their superiors, yet able to wield ever-greater powers of investigation thanks to the establishment’s commitment…
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The Night and the Music

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The Night and the Music is a collection of all the short stories about Matthew Scudder, one of Lawrence Block’s best loved characters. Within there is a history of the detective so many of us have followed over the years. The stories explore Scudder as…
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Dust Devils

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When a rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is a witness. She and her children are murdered too, but husband Robert Dell survives and teams up with his hated father Bobby Goodbread, a far-right former CIA operative, and doer of…
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Cage of Bones

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This excellent novel combines facets of crime and horror. It opens with a couple of Colchester builders making an incredibly grim discovery: a cage made of bones containing a feral child, in a house marked for demolition. From here, DI Phil Brennan is tasked with…
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The Impossible Dead

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Written by Ian Rankin — First a confession: we here at CFL are enormous fans of Ian Rankin. Everyone has their favourite crime fiction character – the enabler detective who first turned their love of the genre into a full-blown addiction – and for us it is…
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Triple Crossing

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Written by Sebastian Rotella — Triple Crossing is the début novel from Sebastian Rotella. A former investigative journalist, Rotella tackles some tough subjects in his first novel… Valentine Pescatore is a rookie agent working for Border Patrol where the US meets Mexico. While chasing a suspect down,…
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The Night and the Music

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Written by Lawrence Block — The Night and the Music is a collection of all the short stories about Matthew Scudder. Within there is a history of the detective many have followed over the years. The stories explore Scudder as well as other well known…
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