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Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings

By RoughJustice

31 July, 2013

The author of Season of Darkness is a British ex-pat living in Canada, who is well known for writing the seven books in the Murdoch Mysteries series. These have benefited from a popular TV adaptation. Tom Tyler is her new creation, making his first appearance…

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I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum

By crimefictionlover

30 July, 2013

Translated by James Anderson — The last month has been great for fans of Norway’s Karin Fossum fans. The very first Inspector Sejer novel – In the Darkness (or Eve’s Eye in the US) – has just appeared in English. Alongside a review of that…

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How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay

By DavidPrestidge

30 July, 2013

To the casual observer Frank MacLeod is an unremarkable man approaching old age. Another near-pensioner shuffling to the shop for a newspaper he won’t read, and a pint of milk that will go off before he finishes it. To those in the know, Frank is…

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The Never List by Koethi Zan

By DeathBecomesHer

29 July, 2013

It’s one of the most anticipated releases of the summer, and it’s been sitting on my bookshelf for ages. I was intrigued, and I’d pick The Never List up every now and then, just to admire it – because the designers have done such a…

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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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Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings

I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum

How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay

The Never List by Koethi Zan

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

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