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A Taste of Ashes by Tony Blank

By Keith Nixon

29 September, 2015

Detective Inspector Bob Valentine has recently returned to work in the West Scotland town of Ayr after being stabbed in the heart on a previous case. A rare night out with his long suffering and concerned family is interrupted by a murder. A man has been discovered…

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The Burning Man by Solange Ritchie

By DeathBecomesHer

26 September, 2015

Meet Dr Catherine ‘Cat’ Powers, a forensic pathologist with the FBI who is the star of the show in this debut novel by an author who used to ply her trade as a lawyer. A most unusual debut it is too. Before I began to…

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The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

By crimefictionlover

25 September, 2015

Translated by George Goulding — There has been huge anticipation for this book, which carries on the story begun by Stieg Larsson in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and which continued in The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the…

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Tennison by Lynda La Plante

By DavidPrestidge

23 September, 2015

Jane Tennison, a young policewoman fresh out of Hendon Training College, makes the daily journey from her parents’ comfortable flat in Maida Vale to Hackney. It’s a grim place and resolutely working class. Being a woman police constable in 1972 – the gender distinction was…

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On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 September, 2015

Is it OK to say a book by a male author is charming? Regardless of possible gender-bias, this book is. Del and Louise are a couple brought together by crime. They met when Del was robbing the 7-11 in Eagle Nest, New Mexico, where Louise…

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Murder House: Parts 4 and 5

By Andre

21 September, 2015

Written by James Patterson and David Ellis — After three weeks, James Patterson’s serial thriller comes to the end with a double-whammy of installments released via eBook just a few days apart. If you’ve downloaded parts one, two and three of Murder House (all reviewed on…

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The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

By DavidPrestidge

20 September, 2015

One look at the cover of this book, and you know that Chastity has been well and truly corrupted. Frank Westworth’s second Killing Sisters noir novel offers guns, girls, guitars and gruesome violence according to one of the blurbs. JJ Stoner is, among other things,…

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Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

By RoughJustice

18 September, 2015

On top of being one of the greatest baskeball players of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has recently revealed his love of murder mysteries and, in particular, those involving Sherlock Holmes. Here he’s teamed up with co-writer Anna Waterhouse to begin a series exploring Mycroft Holmes,…

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A Taste of Ashes by Tony Blank

The Burning Man by Solange Ritchie

The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz

Tennison by Lynda La Plante

On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor

Murder House: Parts 4 and 5

The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

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