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Sleep Tight

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Written by Rachel Abbott – Lost something recently? Forever wondering where you left your glasses/car keys/pen/boyfriend? Perhaps the last item in the list might sound a little far fetched – but not for Liv Hunt. Because one day, just a couple of months after she…
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Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes

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Edited by George Mann — Titan Books brings us another collection of new short stories featuring the world’s first consulting detective. Most Sherlock Holmes anthologies feature reprints of popular stories, and it is difficult for such books to stand out in a crowded field. Last…
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The Catch

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Written by Tom Bale — Coming in at a chunky 520-plus pages, The Catch is a bruiser of a paperback. And I’ll admit there were times I thought I was never going to reach the end. It’s a noir thriller with all the key ingredients…
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The Hangman's Song

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Written by James Oswald — Edinburgh. The present day. A busload of prostitutes is being shipped out of Leith Docks, to pastures new. Who is behind this traffic? Who is the mysterious Russian pimp who has muscled in on a local operation? Meanwhile the man…
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The Poisoned Pawn

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Written by Peggy Blair — Like many other crime fiction readers, I was bowled over by Canadian author Peggy Blair’s debut novel The Beggars’ Opera – available in the UK as Midnight in Havana. So, I was eagerly awaiting the second in the series. The…
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Trouble Man

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Written by Tom Benn — Last year, Tom Benn’s Chamber Music gained plenty of praise for its gritty portrayal of the Manchester club scene and the criminals that inevitably surround it. Now his anti-hero Henry Bane is back in the third novel in the series,…
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