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If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

By Keith Nixon

27 May, 2014

Joe Stark is a trainee detective constable. Based in Greenwich, he has recently transfered from his Hampshire home. But he’s no ordinary copper – Stark is a wounded war veteran, recently returned from several tours, most recently Afghanistan, where he sustained the physical and mental damage that…

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The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin

By RoughJustice

26 May, 2014

The year is 1842 and the location Istanbul, the city that until recently was the heart of the Ottoman Empire. But the Sultan has moved his retinue to the Bosphorus, leaving his mother, the valide, behind in Topkapi Palace. Yashim is her confidante and fixer….

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OxCrimes edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

By Andre

25 May, 2014

If you’ve been a regular visitor to Crime Fiction Lover, you’ll have noticed our exclusive extracts from OxCrimes, an anthology that will raise money for Oxfam’s aid and development work in the UK and abroad. Of course, you’d have to be pretty mean-spirited to find…

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Low Profile by Nick Oldham

By DeathBecomesHer

25 May, 2014

Anyone who has read Vendetta, Nick Oldham’s novelisation of the film starring Danny Dyer, will probably still cringe at the thought of some of the more imaginative torture scenes… filling a living victim with cement is just one example indelibly etched upon my brain. So…

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King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

23 May, 2014

Once again, Max Allan Collins reprises his role as literary executor and with King of the Weeds he has completed another of Mickey Spillane’s unfinished manuscripts. Whereas the last two books produced in this fashion – Lady, Go Die! and Complex 90 – went further…

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The Last Refuge by Craig Roberston

By crimefictionlover

19 May, 2014

There’s a telling scene early in Craig Robertson’s latest mystery where the main character, John Callum, is attacked by two birds while hill walking. Once a teacher, he’s arrived on the Faroe Islands from a rougher part of Glasgow and is clearly escaping from something….

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Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

By RoughJustice

18 May, 2014

Land of Shadows is the first in a new series featuring LAPD homicide detective Elouise Norton. She is married to a computer game programmer, Greg, whose work takes him out of the country a lot, giving him the opportunity to have affairs. Elouise has already…

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The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham

By DavidPrestidge

17 May, 2014

In Tom Thorne’s last outing, The Dying Hours, having been busted down to uniform for one too many indiscretions, our hero ends up hospitalised with a bullet wound. His boss says, “I’ve got good news and bad news….” Not far into The Bones Beneath we…

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If I Should Die by Matthew Frank

The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin

OxCrimes edited by Mark Ellingham and Peter Florence

Low Profile by Nick Oldham

King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

The Last Refuge by Craig Roberston

Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham

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