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Death at Christy Burke's

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Written by Anne Emery – Emery’s amateur sleuths Father Brennan Burke and Monty Collins have traded in the mean streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia for those of Dublin here in Death at Christy Burke’s. The Brennan and Collins series is set in the early 1990s,…
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Death at Christy Burke's

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Written by Anne Emery – Emery’s amateur sleuths Father Brennan Burke and Monty Collins have traded in the mean streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia for those of Dublin here in Death at Christy Burke’s. The Brennan and Collins series is set in the early 1990s,…
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The Impossible Dead

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Written by Ian Rankin — First a confession: we here at CFL are enormous fans of Ian Rankin. Everyone has their favourite crime fiction character – the enabler detective who first turned their love of the genre into a full-blown addiction – and for us it is…
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Triple Crossing

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Written by Sebastian Rotella — Triple Crossing is the début novel from Sebastian Rotella. A former investigative journalist, Rotella tackles some tough subjects in his first novel… Valentine Pescatore is a rookie agent working for Border Patrol where the US meets Mexico. While chasing a suspect down,…
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The Night and the Music

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Written by Lawrence Block — The Night and the Music is a collection of all the short stories about Matthew Scudder. Within there is a history of the detective many have followed over the years. The stories explore Scudder as well as other well known…
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The Sea Detective

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Written by Mark Douglas-Home – Mark Douglas-Home is a writer of outstanding reputation. As a journalist he has garnered the kind of status that most hacks dream of, culminating in a tenure as editor of Scotland’s Herald newspaper. The Sea Detective is his first foray in…
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Snowdrops

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Written by AD Miller — A snowdrop is a lovely flower, but as this book explains in its first few pages, it’s also the Russian vernacular for a dead body that turns up when the snow melts. Each spring, Moscow’s icy drifts subside, and the…
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Headhunters

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Written by Jo Nesbø — With a growing following stemming from his Harry Hole stories, here Jo Nesbø takes a step away from that series to present a standalone story. The result is a mix of action, violence, dark humour and thievery that manages to…
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