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One Eye Open by Paul Finch

By RoughJustice

20 August, 2020

Paul Finch’s latest novel is a standalone thriller, but like his bestselling Heck series, One Eye Open is a police procedural. On the face of it, the traffic police might not seem the most promising division to write a thriller in, but Finch has once…

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The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone

By DeathBecomesHer

19 August, 2020

We first met the Edinburgh-based Skelf family at the start of this year, in the highly memorable and original A Dark Matter. Now they’re back, and the dramas of that series opener are still reverberating. Matriarch Dorothy misses her late husband terribly, and as she…

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When These Mountains Burn by David Joy

By RoughJustice

17 August, 2020

When These Mountains Burn is a rural noir crime novel set in the Appalachian Mountain communities that have been forgotten and left behind by urban America. The area has been ravaged by heroin, synthetic opioids and crystal meth. It’s a brutal, pitiless story, told in…

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The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 August, 2020

Ben Pastor’s political thrillers take you inside the Third Reich with her protagonist, Wehrmacht colonel Baron Martin von Bora. Bora served in the Abwehr (German military intelligence) until that unit was disbanded in favour of the SS, Gestapo and other agencies. The Abwehr connection taints…

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The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz

By RoughJustice

11 August, 2020

Translated by Nick Caistor — In 1996 the Basque city of Vitoria was terrorised by a serial killer, according to The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz. Eight people were killed, including two babies. The killer placed his victims in pairs in…

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The Wicked Sister by Karen Dionne

By Vicki Weisfeld

10 August, 2020

The follow-up to Karen Dionne’s award-winning The Marsh King’s Daughter, this psychological thriller reprises some of the elements of her earlier hit, with an all-new story and cast of characters on the fast-track for trouble. Like the earlier book, it’s set in the sparsely populated but…

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Rabbit Hole by Jon Richter

By crimefictionlover

9 August, 2020

Elaine Napier is 40-ish and has lost her job as a journalist. Those investigative skills – what to do with them? Well, she has set up a true crime podcast that looks into cold cases. Her first investigation is into the disappearance of Katrin Gunnarsdottir,…

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The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

By DeathBecomesHer

6 August, 2020

The work of Aussie authors is beginning to crowd many a crime fiction lover’s bookshelf and eReader – and with names like Jane Harper, Chris Hammer and Helen FitzGerald in the mix, it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Is there room for a wee one…

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One Eye Open by Paul Finch

The Big Chill by Doug Johnstone

When These Mountains Burn by David Joy

The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor

The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz

The Wicked Sister by Karen Dionne

Rabbit Hole by Jon Richter

The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

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