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Tommy Red by Charlie Stella

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It is nearly four years since Rough Riders, a fictionalisation of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger‘s story, topped my end of year list. A lot has happened in the crime fiction field since then, most notably the genre-devouring Gone Girl and the whole phenomenon that is domestic noir….
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Ghosts of Karnak by George Mann

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‘New pulp’ writer George Mann has made a number of appearances on our site. We’ve reviewed his Sherlockian novels The Will of the Dead and The Spirit Box, his Sherlockian anthologies Encounters and Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, as well as two original series novels The Executioner’s Heart and…
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Last Light by CJ Lyons

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Some of my favourite novels are set in small town America. Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher tale, Make Me, has most of the action taking place in a tight knit community and that sense of claustrophobia plays a huge part in marking the book so gripping….
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