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The Vanished by Soren and Lotte Hammer

By crimefictionlover

16 April, 2016

Translated by Martin Aitken — Scandinavian crime fiction has given us some amazing strong, anti-social women as lead characters. Think of Lisbeth Salander, Smilla Jaspersen, Sarah Lund and Saga Noren, for instance. But it’s also has a reputation for quiet old men, usually with health problems. If…

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Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg

By Vicki Weisfeld

15 April, 2016

In poet Melissa Ginsburg’s debut crime novel, her home town of Houston becomes as much a character as the protagonist, Charlotte Ford, a young woman in her early 20s. Houston’s suffocating heat and dark corners, its breakneck freeways, its seedy bars and lush suburbs –…

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Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary

By DeathBecomesHer

14 April, 2016

Once upon a time, in a plush London duplex, lived a kind, handsome man, his beautiful, loving wife, and lovely, obedient, neat and tidy daughters. Sounds like a fairy story? It is, and as Marnie Rose and Noah Jake get deep into their latest investigation,…

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All Through the Night by MP Wright

By DavidPrestidge

13 April, 2016

After first appearing in the 2014 novel Heartman, private detective JT Ellington returns. Born in Barbados where he became a policeman, JT now lives in Bristol and is putting his skills to use. The book is set in the 1960s and JT approached by an austere woman from…

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The Missing by CL Taylor

By MarinaSofia

13 April, 2016

CL Taylor is becoming an important voice in the growing sub-genre of domestic noir. Last year, The Lie rocked the Amazon charts, and was one of our Recommended books. It looked at female relationships, and a woman who had changed her identity entirely. The Missing tackles…

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A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier

By DavidPrestidge

11 April, 2016

It’s a curious thing for an author to make himself a character in his own book, and proves slightly unnerving to start with. However, the fictional version of Ralph Spurrier does not detain us for too long. A book dealer, in the story he buys…

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The Corpse with the Garnet Face by Cathy Ace

By MarinaSofia

10 April, 2016

Will the Welsh Canadian writer Cathy Ace ever run out of precious stones and human body parts for her book titles? They usually go The Corpse with… [Gem Name] [Body Part] and they star the sensible middle-aged academic with a photographic memory, Cait Morgan. The Corpse with…

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Sent to the Devil by Laura Lebow

By MarinaSofia

9 April, 2016

A history buff and opera fan, Laura Lebow’s lively recreation of Mozart’s Vienna is a delightful mix of fact and fiction. The gore is kept firmly off the page, and the atmosphere of the city during its cultural heyday under Joseph II reigns uppermost, despite…

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The Vanished by Soren and Lotte Hammer

Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg

Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary

All Through the Night by MP Wright

The Missing by CL Taylor

A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier

The Corpse with the Garnet Face by Cathy Ace

Sent to the Devil by Laura Lebow

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