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Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

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Chain-reading crime fiction is a seriously satisfying hobby, but not the most sociable if we’re honest. It’s all very well settling down to read another cracking tale, then sharing your views via Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads or – best of all  – CrimeFictionLover, but we all…
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Rise the Dark

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Written by Michael Koryta – With last year’s novel, Last Words, Koryta introduced us to his new series character Mark Novak, an investigator for a legal firm taking pro-bono death row cases where there is a possibility of a miscarriage of justice. That book introduced…
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You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott audiobook

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Narrated by Lauren Fortgang – Known for her hardboiled and noir stories, Megan Abbott’s latest novel – reviewed here as an audiobook –  captures a darker side of sporting competition to coincide with the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. America’s queen of noir has written a psychological thriller…
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Rage

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Written by Zygmunt Miloszewski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones — East European characters are plentiful in Western crime novels – usually as villains – and it is past the point of being a cliche. However, we don’t see many crime novels translated from that part of the world. This is…
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One Green Bottle by Chris Bausse

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One Green Bottle is Curtis Bausse’s debut novel and came out last year. He is a British born writer who has lived in France for most of his life but now lives in Mayotte, a French dependency in the Indian Ocean. The book introduces Bausse’s…
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Unquiet Souls by Liz Mistry

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When the body of prostitute Sharon Asif is found in the snow dappled graveyard of a Bradford churchyard, DS Alice Cooper unwittingly opens a can of grisly worms. In the locked loft of the dead woman’s house are 20 children, two of them dead. It transpires…
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