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Judge Lu's Case Files by PA De Voe

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 June, 2020

Need some escapism? Like, to a different time and place – preferably a simpler one? One where hearing the day’s news doesn’t threaten to give you apoplexy? Well, here you are. PA De Voe is an American writer who must have lived a past life…

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Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

By DeathBecomesHer

1 June, 2020

Brother and sister team Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra are behind this debut police procedural, the first in a series featuring veteran NYPD detective Tommy Keane. He’s just over a year from retirement and should be coasting it, but after committing a breach of…

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The Blues Don't Care by Paul D Marks

By DeathBecomesHer

29 May, 2020

Books are pretty amazing things, aren’t they? Open the cover and you can be transported to another place. Who needs an air ticket when you have a vivid imagination? Some books even take you time travelling too, and Paul D Marks’ The Blues Don’t Care…

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Snog, Marry, Murder by Zac Colbert

By nagaisayonara

26 May, 2020

Snog Marry Murder by Zac Colbert is a short punch of a crime novella that doesn’t take itself seriously, by an author who knows a lot about the occasionally overlapping worlds of crime fiction and television. And we should know because, full disclosure, he used…

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Coldwater by Tom Pitts

By RoughJustice

24 May, 2020

Gary and Linda have moved to a modest property in Sacramento after Linda’s miscarriage. They are an everyday married couple; she works for the government as a clerk and he works at an air conditioning supply depot. She wants him to quit smoking and they…

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Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

24 May, 2020

Jack McEvoy first appeared in 1996 in The Poet and it was 13 years before we next met him again in The Scarecrow so he’s well overdue for another outing. Now Michael Connelly’s dogged investigative journalist is back in a story that’s bang up to…

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Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald

By DeathBecomesHer

20 May, 2020

There are times when life can become a bit of a blur in crime fiction land, with troubled police detectives, missing children and deranged serial killers all melding into one homogenous mass of evildoing. It’s at such moments that you welcome a little originality –…

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The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

14 May, 2020

Over the past few months our world has changed in ways most of us could never have anticipated. During the Covid-19 pandemic readers might fall in two categories. There are those who gravitate towards books about disasters and dystopian worlds, and those who avoid them…

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Judge Lu's Case Files by PA De Voe

Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

The Blues Don't Care by Paul D Marks

Snog, Marry, Murder by Zac Colbert

Coldwater by Tom Pitts

Fair Warning by Michael Connelly

Ash Mountain by Helen FitzGerald

The Waiting Rooms by Eve Smith

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