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Outsider by Rob Sinclair

By Paul Burke

19 December, 2021

A Ryker Returns Thriller. As far as we are concerned Ryker can keep returning, as long as the thrills and spills match the excitement generated in Outsider, that is. This is an entertaining action thriller with plenty of fireworks, an enigmatic lone wolf hero with…

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All Down the Line by Andrew Field

By DeathBecomesHer

17 December, 2021

We’re in Manchester, the mad-fer-it capital of Britain, where Cain Bell is living it large. He’s co owner of the Red Manifesto, the best restaurant in Manchester, a place so classy it’s aiming for a Michelin star next year. Life is good. His partner in…

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The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer

By Vicki Weisfeld

9 December, 2021

Art crimes are one of the more intriguing branches of international crime and in The Last Mona Lisa American author Jonathan Santlofer melds past and present to explore several motivations. His conceit begins with a real crime that took place in 1911. Fired from his…

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Perilous Gambit by Kevin G Chapman

By DeathBecomesHer

7 December, 2021

Detectives Mike Stoneman and Jason Dickson are as New York as a hot pastrami bagel, but one of the great things about Kevin G Chapman’s series of books featuring the pair is that they tend to get about a bit. In Lethal Voyage, we had…

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The Girl With No Place to Hide by Marvin Albert

By Paul Burke

6 December, 2021

A fast-paced, New York-set hardboiled classic that keeps you guessing to the end, The Girl with No Place to Hide is the third in Albert’s Jake Barrow sextet written under the pseudonym Nick Quarry and originally published in 1959. Hardboiled is usually tight and to…

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Girl: Inside by S Williams

By crimefictionlover

5 December, 2021

The sequel to Girl: Broken, Girl: Inside continues the story of Daisy, a young woman who grew up in and was abused by a cult but managed to escape. Author S Williams aims to explore how people can be affected and destabilised by the extreme…

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Love & Bullets by Nick Kolakowski

By Paul Burke

3 December, 2021

Good gonzo noir is a perpetual car crash; one bone-crunching, metal-shredding impact after another and Nick Kolakowski’s pulp fiction upholds that tradition. Meet Bill and Fiona. Don’t let their ordinary names fool you, they are the harbingers of chaos. Where they tread, and they tread…

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The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee

By Paul Burke

1 December, 2021

The fifth Wyndham and Banerjee mystery is a delight to read because author Abir Mukherjee is such a wonderful storyteller. It’s a narrative that’s easy to get lost in. The 1920s colonial India setting is rich and colourful but also ripe with all the best…

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Outsider by Rob Sinclair

All Down the Line by Andrew Field

The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer

Perilous Gambit by Kevin G Chapman

The Girl With No Place to Hide by Marvin Albert

Girl: Inside by S Williams

Love & Bullets by Nick Kolakowski

The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee

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