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A Dangerous Fiction by Barbara Rogan

By DeathBecomesHer

20 July, 2013

The crime fiction genre is packed with quizzical private detectives and flawed but brilliant police men and women, so it made a refreshing change to meet Jo Donovan, literary agent. A young widow, she runs the successful Hamish-Donovan Agency in New York and it is…

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The Last Whisper in the Dark

By RoughJustice

17 July, 2013

Last year’s literary crime thriller The Last Kind Words went down a storm with us. We reviewed it and gave it five stars, and MyBookishWays included it in her top five books of 2012. In that book career, thief Terrier Rand was called home to…

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Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson

By DavidPrestidge

16 July, 2013

In a cutting which once carried a railway line that Dr Beeching took his knife to in the 1960s, a corpse is discovered. It is Gavin Millar, a disgraced former lecturer. Most oddly, despite his emaciated and scruffy appearance, he was carrying £5000 in cash….

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The Executioner's Heart

By RoughJustice

15 July, 2013

Written by George Mann — The Executioner’s Heart sees George Mann return to the Victorian London he so ably depicted in The Affinity Bridge, The Immorality Engine, and The Osiris Ritual, which formed the first three books in the Newbury & Hobbes series. It’s an…

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Missing in Rangoon by Christopher G Moore

By PulpCurry

14 July, 2013

For well over 20 years Canadian lawyer turned crime writer Christopher G Moore has chronicled change in Thailand and the surrounding region through the character of Bangkok-based American private investigator, Vincent Calvino. Moore has penned 13 Calvino books. Most of them are set in Thailand,…

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Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen

By crimefictionlover

12 July, 2013

The miserable and sardonic Copenhagen police detective Carl Mørck is back, and this time he plays the main role in a story that has something for just about every stripe of crime fiction lover. Mørck is the head of Department Q, headquartered in the basement…

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Joyland

By RoughJustice

11 July, 2013

Written by Stephen King — When Charles Ardai and Max Allan Collins started up Hard Case Crime with the intention of reviving the paperback original crime novel with the painted cover, they wrote to Stephen King. The famous horror author had previously expressed his love…

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Unseen by Karin Slaughter

By DeathBecomesHer

9 July, 2013

Opening a Karin Slaughter novel is like visiting the hall of mirrors at a fairground. You see things from all angles, but can never be certain which one is the true picture. Unseen is the ninth in the Will Trent series, and was one of the…

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A Dangerous Fiction by Barbara Rogan

The Last Whisper in the Dark

Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson

The Executioner's Heart

Missing in Rangoon by Christopher G Moore

Redemption by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Joyland

Unseen by Karin Slaughter

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