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The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

By DeathBecomesHer

3 May, 2015

There seems to be a great appetite for crime fiction set in Victorian times at the moment, and we’ve recently reviewed The Strings of Murder, The Infidel Stain and, of course, the strangely titled Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Mad Bear. In The Children of…

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The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

By DavidPrestidge

1 May, 2015

Debut author Cal Moriarty was discovered after taking a course at the Faber Academy, and the publisher now has a fine writer on its hands who can weave a tale full of surprises and twists. Set in the early 1980s, the story begins when Bobbi Lomax is…

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The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter

By DavidPrestidge

27 April, 2015

London, 1841. It’s the fourth year of Queen Victoria’s reign and the city is riven by the first stirrings of proper democracy. The Chartists have put forward a six-point pathway which will, if adopted, totally reform the way in which the country is governed. Against…

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Scratch the Surface by Josh K Stevens

By RoughJustice

25 April, 2015

Midwest gangster Deuce Walsh is having a bad day. He woke up beaten and with a gun shot wound, in an abandoned factory on the edge of town. The two men he’s just killed weren’t goons for the Chianti brothers coming to finish the job…

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Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Mad Bear by John Elvin

By crimefictionlover

24 April, 2015

Every so often crime fiction lovers stage that old debate – should the famous characters of the genre be laid to rest with their authors when they pass on, or can we allow other writers to take them up and give them new mysteries to…

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Hidden by Emma Kavanagh

By nagaisayonara

22 April, 2015

2015 is looking like the year of the psychological thriller, with a string of new novels giving crime fiction lovers a view deep into the hearts and minds of criminals and cops alike. Our latest list of Recommended books (right) includes several psychological thrillers by female British authors….

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The Lie by CL Taylor

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2015

There are so many crime fiction book series these days that it’s refreshing to come across an author who likes writing one-off psychological thrillers. The Lie is CL Taylor’s second novel, and is a book that will grab you from the very first sentence, never…

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Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

By MarinaSofia

21 April, 2015

First published in 2008, Child 44 put Tim Rob Smith on the map as an author of taut, gritty crime fiction. Like Gorky Park, it used Soviet Russia as its backdrop – with all the nuances of communist justice. Also like Gorky Park it’s now been…

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The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter

Scratch the Surface by Josh K Stevens

Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Mad Bear by John Elvin

Hidden by Emma Kavanagh

The Lie by CL Taylor

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

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