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The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

By DavidPrestidge

8 April, 2016

Ex-cop Bernie Gunther feels life has come full circle. In his younger days, between spells with Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he was the house detective for the city’s celebrated Adlon Hotel. Then came World War II and Gunther’s nimble foxtrot around Nazi Germany where he worked for the likes…

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The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

By Jeremy Megraw

8 April, 2016

Translated by Neil Smith — It’s been a decade since the posthumous publication of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which kicked off a global fascination in all things Nordic noir. Ever since, the holy grail for readers and publishers alike has been to find the next…

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Make Me by Lee Child

By DeathBecomesHer

7 April, 2016

Baggage. Where would crime fiction protagonists be without it? There’s no doubt it plays a huge part in defining the ever-growing cast of flawed heroes and heroines that people our favourite reads. Jack Reacher is different though. He’s a man who carries no baggage, of…

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A Time of Torment by John Connolly

By DavidPrestidge

6 April, 2016

John Connolly’s distinctive blend of human villainy and supernatural forces have won him a huge army of admirers since he first came on the scene with Every Dead Thing in 1999. He has attained that enviable status where each new book is a serious event…

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Spur of the Moment by David Linzee

By DavidPrestidge

5 April, 2016

Opera mysteries are a rare thing but St Louis author David Linzee hopes to tap a narrow-but-deep cross-over of interests with his first Renata Radleigh book. Renata is an English opera singer currently employed by the St Louis Opera to sing the relatively minor role…

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Dead Pretty by David Mark

By DeathBecomesHer

31 March, 2016

We have reviewed the Aector McAvoy novels ever since the first, The Dark Winter, appeared in November 2012. Dead Pretty is number five in the series (there’s also been a short story, A Bad Death) and it’s fair to say that life in the city…

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Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison

By DavidPrestidge

30 March, 2016

Blood of the Oak takes us back to Pennsylvania in 1765, when the British were still in control. Nominally. On the banks of the Susquehanna and Alegheny rivers, and further south in Virginia it’s not only the natives who are restless. A punitive stamp tax…

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In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings

By DeathBecomesHer

30 March, 2016

Life and death, every crime novel needs ’em. And it’s a particularly dramatic demise that starts the ball rolling in this stunning example of domestic noir. When her father commits suicide on the day after her mother’s funeral, Bella struggles to come to terms with such…

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The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Make Me by Lee Child

A Time of Torment by John Connolly

Spur of the Moment by David Linzee

Dead Pretty by David Mark

Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison

In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings

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