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The Poisoned Pawn

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Written by Peggy Blair — Like many other crime fiction readers, I was bowled over by Canadian author Peggy Blair’s debut novel The Beggars’ Opera – available in the UK as Midnight in Havana. So, I was eagerly awaiting the second in the series. The…
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Trouble Man

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Written by Tom Benn — Last year, Tom Benn’s Chamber Music gained plenty of praise for its gritty portrayal of the Manchester club scene and the criminals that inevitably surround it. Now his anti-hero Henry Bane is back in the third novel in the series,…
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The Toy Taker

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Written by Luke Delaney — We reviewers at Crime Fiction Lover get through a fair few books as the months pass by. And recently, there have been some recurring themes… Trust me, there are only so many times that you can run a fresh eye…
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Someday Never Comes

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Written by Frances di Plino — There’s a worrying epidemic in the fictional town of Bradchester. Young children – from as young as six years old – are being smuggled into the town and sold on to paedophiles. Then, when the perverts have finished with…
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Cast-Iron Men

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Written by Dominic Kearney — As 2007 draws to a close, the city of Liverpool looks like a giant building site as it prepares to take centre stage as the 2008 European City of Culture. It’s a huge fillip for a city that has been…
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Scratch One

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Written by Michael Crichton, as John Lange — Late last year, Hard Case Crime reprinted eight crime novels written by Michael Crichton. They were under the pseudonym John Lange, while he was at university in the late 60s and early 70s. We reviewed Grave Descend…
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The Wrong Quarry

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Written by Max Allan Collins — One of America’s leading modern pulp crime authors, Max Allan Collins has been writing Quarry stories since back in 1976. The series began with The Broker, and the most recent one was 2010’s Quarry’s Ex. Now, the hitman hero/anti-hero…
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Cairo

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Written by Chris Womersley — Based on the true story of the theft of Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman from the National Gallery in Victoria, Australia in 1986, Cairo opens with main character Tom fleeing from an ordinary small town for a new life in Melbourne….
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