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Shit Happens by Eileen Wharton

By Keith Nixon

24 June, 2014

Rose Starling lives a dreadful life. Physically abused by her ex-husband, Joe, she’s raising their three kids on benefits and is barely able to make ends meet, skirting from one problem to the next. But things turn from bad to worse when bits of Joe…

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All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke

By RoughJustice

24 June, 2014

The title All Day and a Night refers to prison slang for a sentence of life without parole – precisely the sentence given to Anthony Amaro almost 21 years ago for the murder of six women. Five murders were in upstate New York, in the…

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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

By Andre

23 June, 2014

It’s an audacious move putting the name of your detective in the title of a novel, but Claire DeWitt is a big enough character to justify such confidence. The second novel in Sara Gran’s San Francisco crime series is a strange, heady narrative that draws…

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The Reckoning by Rennie Airth

By DavidPrestidge

22 June, 2014

We are in an England slowly trying to come to terms with the fact that, despite sitting on the victorious side of the table after a brutal war, it is in a mess. Food is still rationed. Whole districts of London and other major cities…

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The Hunting Dogs by Jorn Lier Horst

By Jeremy Megraw

21 June, 2014

The Norwegian detective William Wisting is an upright, honest, and morally unambiguous good cop with an impeccable career seeking truth and justice. So it comes as a backhanded slap when his own department is accused of corruption, and worse, of planting evidence. The news comes…

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Gods of War by James Lovegrove

By RoughJustice

20 June, 2014

Last year we reviewed The Stuff of Nightmares, a Holmesian pastiche with science fiction and steampunk elements in which Lovegrove successfully steered a line between pleasing fans of traditional Conan Doyle mysteries and provided something new for readers. He returns now with an adventure set…

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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

By Andre

19 June, 2014

Last summer it was revealed that JK Rowling had a secret identity as crime writer Robert Galbraith, a cunning ruse to prove she wasn’t just relying on her name to get published. Galbraith had already been named one to watch by Val McDermid and Mark…

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Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

By nagaisayonara

16 June, 2014

Written by CS Boag — The Case of the Horses for Corpses is the third in CS Boag’s Mister Rainbow series, a collection about a classic hardboiled PI living in modern day Sydney. Mister Rainbow (or Rain for short) is a down-and-out private eye in…

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Shit Happens by Eileen Wharton

All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke

Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

The Reckoning by Rennie Airth

The Hunting Dogs by Jorn Lier Horst

Gods of War by James Lovegrove

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

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