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Falling Fast by Neil Broadfoot

By DeathBecomesHer

22 August, 2014

This debut novel was recently shortlisted for the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year alongside the likes of Peter May, Louise Welsh and Chris Brookmyre. In that company, it certainly has a lot to live up to. No problems there, for Falling Fast is…

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The Sandman by Lars Kepler

By RoughJustice

22 August, 2014

If your perception of Nordic noir is of troubled detectives who can’t relate to people at work or at home, who are giving in to alcoholism and as cold inside as the climate they inhabit, then the Joona Linna series, now in its fourth instalment,…

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The Long Way Home

By MarinaSofia

19 August, 2014

Written by Louise Penny — Louise Penny has a devoted audience of readers who eagerly await each of her novels featuring Québecois detective Armand Gamache – and I am no exception. We were all on tenterhooks to see if the good inspector’s retirement from his…

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Skinjob by Bruce McCabe

By nagaisayonara

18 August, 2014

The scariest thing about dystopias – worlds which are defined by totalitarianism and dehumanisation – is how closely they resemble our own. The scariest aspect of novels such as George Orwell’s 1984 is not the strangeness of the worlds they represent, but their familiarity. Readers…

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The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey

By DavidPrestidge

16 August, 2014

Amsterdam copper Henk van der Pol is old school. Now in his 50s, his daughter is away at university, and all around him bright young things are moving up through the police ranks. He has been an institution man for much of his working life…

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Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box by George Mann

By DavidPrestidge

15 August, 2014

Previously here on Crime Fiction Lover we’ve reviewed The Will of the Dead featuring Sherlock Holmes in a steampunk mystery, and The Executioner’s Heart from George Mann’s Newbury & Hobbes series set in Victorian times. This latest Conan Doyle pastiche takes us back to the…

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The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette

By RoughJustice

14 August, 2014

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith — Last month we celebrated Bastille Day with a look at the best French crime fiction. My two suggestions for that list were written by Manchette. The quality of this author hasn’t escaped the eye of publishers New York Review Books,…

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Hardcastle's Quartet by Graham Ison

By DavidPrestidge

13 August, 2014

It’s the summer of 1918 and people are tired of a war which was supposed to over by Christmas four years earlier. On the Western Front, the Germans are finally on the back foot, but in London the war against crime still goes on. Divisional…

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Falling Fast by Neil Broadfoot

The Sandman by Lars Kepler

The Long Way Home

Skinjob by Bruce McCabe

The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey

Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box by George Mann

The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette

Hardcastle's Quartet by Graham Ison

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