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Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

By RoughJustice

16 July, 2020

Blacktop Wasteland has generated a lot of interest over the preceding months with both veteran and new writers queuing up to sing its praises on social media. The hype, especially considering that Blacktop Wasteland is only Cosby’s second novel, is quite something. The last time…

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The Resident by David Jackson

By crimefictionlover

16 July, 2020

Thomas Brogan is on the run. He’s killed people – quite a few, it turns out – and the police are on his tail. As he legs it through the streets and alleys of the urban sprawl somewhere in the UK, he runs past a…

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Tell Me How it Ends by VB Grey

By DeathBecomesHer

15 July, 2020

England in the early 1950s must have been a pretty grey and dismal place to live. The country was still recovering from World War II, and rationing didn’t end until 1954. No wonder, then, that the 1960s were ‘swinging’ as a new sense of freedom…

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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips

By RoughJustice

13 July, 2020

Los Angeles-based author Gary Phillips has been writing crime in a variety of styles and media for nearly 30 years. I can remember reading about his black PI, Ivan Monk, in books such as Violent Spring in the late 90s. He’s since branched out into…

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The Part-Time Job by PD James

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 July, 2020

Many readers are familiar with legendary crime author PD James through her novels about Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh or her private detective Cordelia Gray. However, she was a skilled writer of short stories as well and on 14 July Faber & Faber is celebrating…

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Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko

By nagaisayonara

8 July, 2020

Tokyo is a city like any other, except much much bigger. By some counts it ranks as the world’s largest city, and it’s a place Michael Pronko knows well, as proven by his writing on the subject, which includes his detective Hiroshi mystery books. Tokyo…

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Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith

By DeathBecomesHer

5 July, 2020

Lockdown is a bummer, isn’t it? But the great thing about reading is that it can transport you to somewhere completely different in the mere flick of a page. These days you can find crime fiction set in all manner of locations, both humdrum and…

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Somebody's Daughter by Carol Wyer

By DeathBecomesHer

2 July, 2020

Can it be just three years since award-winning romantic comedy novelist Carol Wyer turned her attention to crime fiction? Since then, she’s written 11 well-received books and now she’s back with her 12th. Somebody’s Daughter is number seven in the series featuring Natalie Ward and…

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Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

The Resident by David Jackson

Tell Me How it Ends by VB Grey

Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips

The Part-Time Job by PD James

Tokyo Traffic by Michael Pronko

Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith

Somebody's Daughter by Carol Wyer

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