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Shut Your Eyes Tight

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Written by John Verdon — This is the author’s second book, and the second outing for his detective Dave Gurney, a phenomenal investigator who has retired from the NYPD and lives with his wife Madeleine in the Catskill foothills in upstate New York. He must…
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Hit and Run

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Written by Doug Johnstone — Doug Johnstone’s previous novel Smokeheads was one hell of a read, a breakneck tear-up of a book following four blokes on a whiskey tour of Islay which descends into sex, drugs and extreme violence. Peat black and shot through with…
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Raylan

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Written by Elmore Leonard — This is the third novel, after Riding the Rap and Pronto, to feature US Marshall Raylan Givens. Having experienced only mixed success with film and TV adaptations of his work (anybody remember Karen Sisco, the short-lived spin-off from Out of…
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I Will Have Vengeance

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Written by Maurizio de Giovanni — With the rise of European translations hitting the bookshelves, I Will Have Vengeance joins the ranks. Originally released in Italy in 2007, this is the first English translation from the Commissario Ricciardi series. Set in 1931, the spectre of fascism…
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Pantheon

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Written by Sam Bourne — Sam Bourne is the nom de plume of Guardian political journalist Jonathan Freedland. In his last novel, The Final Reckoning, he examined how far the Nazis reached sympathisers where you’d not expect them. In Pantheon he reappraises WWII again, this…
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The Fall

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Written by Claire McGowan — This is the debut novel from a new name on the scene, Claire McGowan, whom we’ve interviewed on the site and recently featured in an article about where authors do their writing. She’s also a director of the Crime Writers’…
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