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The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood

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Trevor Wood gained a legion of followers with his Jimmy Mullen trilogy, which began with The Man on the Street. His homeless protagonist got readers thinking about the way society treats its poorest people and how their vulnerability places them at risk of crime and…
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Broiler by Eli Cranor

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The broiler is a breed of chicken favoured by the American poultry industry for its flesh. If you’re hatched a broiler, you’re dead meat, and the sense of fatalism hinted at in the title is something that will certainly cast its shadow across the narrative…
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The Infiltrator by TR Hendricks

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When the tropes of crime fiction become too much – the secrets, the deceit, the evasions, the jealousies – that’s when a no-holds-barred thriller like The Infiltrator by TR Hendricks makes a welcome cleanse. Its adventure-first approach scours your veins as you follow retired US…
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Wisting season three on BBC Four

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Norwegian crime fiction returns to British screens on Saturday 13 April at 9pm with a third season of Wisting, based on the William Wisting novels by former police detective Jørn Lier Horst. The case gets under way with two startling events. A British boy has…
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Three-Inch Teeth by CJ Box 

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There’s rural noir and then there’s the territory multi-award winning bestseller CJ Box operates in – the wilds of northern Wyoming. His novels are wilderness tales. Can we say wilderness noir? The reader numbers don’t lie – people love his Joe Pickett character and Paramount+…
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