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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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From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell

By Andre

16 May, 2014

May 2014 is the 50th anniversary of Ruth Rendell’s debut novel, From Doon with Death. It is being reissued with an introduction by Ian Rankin, who describes her as “probably the greatest living crime writer in the world”. Hopefully, the typographical errors that sneaked into…

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The Cemetery of Swallows by Mallock

By MarinaSofia

15 May, 2014

Translated by Steven Rendall — Don’t you just love novels which begin with a nearly impossible set-up… and somehow find a way of resolving it? Set-ups don’t get much more implausible than this. Manuel Gemoni, a fairly well-adjusted young Frenchman with a charming wife and…

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The Scent of New Death by Mike Monson

By DavidPrestidge

12 May, 2014

Phil Gaines is not much of a man. He is scrawny. His skin is pale and hairless. He looks like an unemployed accountant. Despite his physical imperfections, he has one very important skillset. He is a very talented bank robber. Operating out of his nondescript…

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The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

By DavidPrestidge

11 May, 2014

The village of Prosperous, Maine, is aptly named. Everyone is comfortably well-off. Folk in Prosperous look after one another, but they are remarkably tolerant, too – not always a defining characteristic of isolated Maine settlements. Just outside the village is an ancient church, dedicated to…

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Under the Channel by Gilles Pétel

By Andre

11 May, 2014

Translated by Emily Boyce and Jane Aitken — A dead body on a train is a mystery straight out of Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of crime fiction. When the murder was committed on the train’s journey through the Channel Tunnel, though, which country’s…

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The Last Refuge by Craig Roberston

Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall

The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham

From Doon With Death by Ruth Rendell

The Cemetery of Swallows by Mallock

The Scent of New Death by Mike Monson

The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

Under the Channel by Gilles Pétel

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