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Death Angel by Linda Fairstein

By DeathBecomesHer

28 July, 2013

Have you ever been lucky enough to take a tour with a Blue Badge guide? I once toured Covent Garden with one, and they tell you all kinds of little snippets that you’d never find in a guide book, really bringing history to life. Reading Death…

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Beyond Rue Morgue edited by Paul Cane and Charles Prepolec

By RoughJustice

28 July, 2013

Le Chevalier C Auguste Dupin, Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous creation, is considered by many to be fiction’s first detective character. Indeed, at the time of his first appearance in the 1841 novella The Murders in the Rue Morgue, the term detective had not been coined….

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Red Winter by Dan Smith

By LoiteringWithIntent

27 July, 2013

Dan Smith’s previous novel The Child Thief, an intense thriller set among the Bolshevik-infested forests of 1930’s Ukraine, was one of my novels of 2012, so I had high expectations for Red Winter. And I’m glad to say that it more than lived up to…

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Demons Walk Among Us by Jonathan Hicks

By DavidPrestidge

27 July, 2013

Last year, Hicks introduced us to Captain Thomas Oscendale, of The Military Foot Police. In The Dead of Mametz, he was investigating treachery and murder during the Battle of The Somme. Now, he is in the Ypres Salient, and it is 1917, a year later….

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Hard Road by JB Turner

By RoughJustice

25 July, 2013

Jon Reznick is the anti-hero of this conspiracy thriller. His wife was killed in 9/11 and his whole world is his daughter Lauren. He’s tried to keep her as separate as possible from his work both for her safety and to conceal what he does….

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The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

By Andre

24 July, 2013

The mystery surrounding Robert Galbraith was solved this month when it was revealed that this debut novelist was in fact JK Rowling writing under a pseudonym. The Cuckoo’s Calling is the Harry Potter author’s first foray into crime fiction. So is it any good? After…

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Scafell by Matthew Pink

By DavidPrestidge

22 July, 2013

Stephen ‘Sparky’ Markham is washed up in all kinds of ways. After a career in the forces, and a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London, he has pretty much dropped out, and has taken refuge in his inherited cottage on the fells above Wastwater,…

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Bed of Nails

By MarinaSofia

21 July, 2013

Written by Antonin Varenne — French crime fiction is currently being touted as the next big thing, and here is an unusual debut novel to tantalise your tastebuds. The author’s work has been compared to that of Fred Vargas, who this week shared the CWA…

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Death Angel by Linda Fairstein

Beyond Rue Morgue edited by Paul Cane and Charles Prepolec

Red Winter by Dan Smith

Demons Walk Among Us by Jonathan Hicks

Hard Road by JB Turner

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Scafell by Matthew Pink

Bed of Nails

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