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A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

By MarinaSofia

24 July, 2015

Nobody does dark and twisted better than Sophie Hannah, but after an inroad into Agatha Christie territory with The Monogram Murders, she seems in no hurry to get back to her crime series featuring Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse. In this contemporary standalone novel, Hannah…

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Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs

By DeathBecomesHer

23 July, 2015

Maybe it’s a sweeping generalisation, but women in crime novels tend to fall into two camps… They are cast as the victim, who may or not fight back and, more often than not, end up on the mortuary slab. Or, as the driven career girl…

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Gargoyle Pixie Dog by Bill Todd

By DavidPrestidge

22 July, 2015

This collection opens with the bright and breezy novella, Gargoyle Pixie Dog. Private detective Danny Lancaster, who features in all the stories, is a partly disabled army veteran plying his trade on the streets of Brighton. The seaside town offers a backdrop of fading Georgian…

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Life or Death by Michael Robotham

By DeathBecomesHer

20 July, 2015

Avid readers will relate to what I’m about to say: Sometimes, life just gets in the way. I mean, why waste time working, eating or sleeping when you’re in the thrall of a gripping book like Life or Death? Because believe me, this book snags…

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The Big Bitch by John Patrick Lang

By DavidPrestidge

18 July, 2015

So, what is left of Jackson ‘Doc’ Holiday’s world, now that his multi-million dollar fraud scheme has collapsed around his ears? Well, there’s the Armani suits, Gucci loafers and handmade shirts, for starters. A total pariah in the legitimate financial world, what does he do?…

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A Killing Moon by Steven Dunne

By Keith Nixon

17 July, 2015

It’s the end of term, Christmas is coming. Derby University student Caitlin Kinnear heads out for heavy night on the town before heading back to Ireland the next day for the break. But after leaving her friend in the bar she’d been propping up Caitlin…

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The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

By Andre

15 July, 2015

As one of the so-called queens of the Golden Age of crime fiction, Margery Allingham’s an author whose works have remained in print decades after they were first published. Her amateur sleuth Albert Campion, an affable aristocrat, appeared in 19 novels by Allingham. Following her…

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Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall

By RoughJustice

15 July, 2015

LA Homicide detective Elouise Norton returns to our shelves a year after making her terrific debut in Land of Shadows. If you’ve read that book, then you’ll know Norton is confident and assertive, and very much the senior detective in her partnership with Colin Taggert, who is white…

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A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs

Gargoyle Pixie Dog by Bill Todd

Life or Death by Michael Robotham

The Big Bitch by John Patrick Lang

A Killing Moon by Steven Dunne

The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

Skies of Ash by Rachel Howzell Hall

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