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Death at Christy Burke's

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Written by Anne Emery – Emery’s amateur sleuths Father Brennan Burke and Monty Collins have traded in the mean streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia for those of Dublin here in Death at Christy Burke’s. The Brennan and Collins series is set in the early 1990s,…
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The Impossible Dead

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This is the follow-up to 2009’s The Complaints, which introduced us to Malcolm Fox and his internal investigation unit. Fox’s group is something of a renegade band, disliked even by their superiors, yet able to wield ever-greater powers of investigation thanks to the establishment’s commitment…
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The Night and the Music

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The Night and the Music is a collection of all the short stories about Matthew Scudder, one of Lawrence Block’s best loved characters. Within there is a history of the detective so many of us have followed over the years. The stories explore Scudder as…
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Dust Devils

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When a rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is a witness. She and her children are murdered too, but husband Robert Dell survives and teams up with his hated father Bobby Goodbread, a far-right former CIA operative, and doer of…
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Crimes in Southern Indiana

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This collection of stories set in southern Indiana is a powerful book that gets to the heart of the human condition. Similar to the classics of American literature – think Steinbeck or Dreiser – it focuses on the lives of people where victory is simply…
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Cage of Bones

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This excellent novel combines facets of crime and horror. It opens with a couple of Colchester builders making an incredibly grim discovery: a cage made of bones containing a feral child, in a house marked for demolition. From here, DI Phil Brennan is tasked with…
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The Impossible Dead

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Written by Ian Rankin — First a confession: we here at CFL are enormous fans of Ian Rankin. Everyone has their favourite crime fiction character – the enabler detective who first turned their love of the genre into a full-blown addiction – and for us it is…
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Triple Crossing

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Written by Sebastian Rotella — Triple Crossing is the début novel from Sebastian Rotella. A former investigative journalist, Rotella tackles some tough subjects in his first novel… Valentine Pescatore is a rookie agent working for Border Patrol where the US meets Mexico. While chasing a suspect down,…
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