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Hammett Unwritten

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Written by Owen Fitzstephen — Samuel Dashiell Hammett was the author of five novels and many short stories and is one of the most famous authors of hardboiled detective fiction. Born in 1894, Hammett left school when he was only 13 and eventually went to…
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Human Remains

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Written by Elizabeth Haynes — Eleanor Rigby is one of my favourite Beatles songs, with its haunting lyric, “All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” You might dismiss it as a sorrowful composition rooted in the 1960s, but that’s where you’d be…
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The Dead of Mametz

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Written by Jonathan Hicks — July 1916, northern France. After 22 months of a war that was meant to be over before its first Christmas, British forces are poised to push the German invaders off the Somme ridges and drive them back whence they came….
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The Expats by Chris Pavone

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Moving to Luxembourg with her very average husband Dexter, Kate Moore, who is an ex CIA agent turned full time mum, expects a life of leisure looking after the kids and touring Europe on weekends. What she doesn’t bargain for is discovering that her new best…
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Marked

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Written by David Jackson — New York. Now, or maybe just the other day. A mother, racked with worry, looks out through the rain-streaked window onto the street, hoping to see her missing daughter. Megan has been gone only a few days, but she is…
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The Abduction of Mary Rose

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Written by Joan Hall Hovey — Joan Hall Hovey is not a household name yet, but this Canadian writer has been quietly and steadily publishing suspense novels for the past 10 years. The Abduction of Mary Rose is her fifth and most recent novel, and…
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