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Throwing Off Sparks by Michael Pool

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 May, 2020

The first book in a promising new collection, PI Tales, Throwing Off Sparks is also the first book in a new series featuring an East Texas-based female private investigator named Riley Reeves. It doesn’t exactly read like a first-in-a-series, though, and maybe at some future…

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Crime in the Heat by Catherine Moloney

By DeathBecomesHer

2 May, 2020

Crime double acts, we all love ’em, from Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to, in more recent times, Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw and Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard. It’s that meeting of minds, yin and yang that creates such…

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The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 April, 2020

The third RG Belsky crime thriller to feature harried Channel 10 news director Clare Carlson, The Last Scoop puts our heroine in the middle of both a puzzling murder story and the potential exposé of New York political shenanigans (spoiler alert: money is involved). Each…

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Man of the World by Paul D Brazill

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2020

Brit grit author Paul D Brazill follows his 2018 novella Last Year’s Man with a return to Seatown, where we pick up the continuing story of hitman Tommy Bennett. Perched somewhere on the Northeast coast, Seatown is cold, wet and windy, the kind of place…

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Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

By nagaisayonara

25 April, 2020

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend away for Jodie and her three friends, time away from their children, their husbands, their jobs, their whole lives back in the city. But it didn’t take long before everything started going wrong for Jodie and the…

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4 Riverside Close by Diana Wilkinson

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2020

Riverside Close is a quiet, somewhat cliquey, cul de sac in North London. It’s tucked away from the hustle and bustle and some of the properties on it even have a little river at the bottom of the garden. Plum London real estate, then –…

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Nine Tenths of the Law by Claudia Hagadus Long

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 April, 2020

This literary crime thriller by Claudia Hagadus Long is part treasure hunt, part family story, part romance, part tragic history. Long weaves these elements together in a complicated plot through the strong voice of her story’s sympathetic narrator, Zara Persil-Pendleton. Zara and her husband Sam…

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Broken by Don Winslow

By crimefictionlover

18 April, 2020

The lockdown for coronavirus won’t last forever, but if it means you’re taking a break from a busy lifestyle it’s the perfect time to dive into some of Don Winslow’s epic crime novels such as The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border….

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Throwing Off Sparks by Michael Pool

Crime in the Heat by Catherine Moloney

The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

Man of the World by Paul D Brazill

Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

Nine Tenths of the Law by Claudia Hagadus Long

Broken by Don Winslow

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