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Easy Money

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Written by Jens Lapidus – Easy Money is the translation of Jens Lapidus’ hit Swedish crime novel Snabba Cash.  The first part of his Stockholm Noir trilogy, Snabba Cash appeared as a film in Sweden in 2010 which will be appearing in US cinemas this summer….
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Dare Me by Megan Abbott

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“At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something – anything – to begin. There’s something dangerous about the…
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Suspect X and more - new crime audiobooks

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Our first on the radar outing this week is a rather special one because all of the books featured, are audiobooks. Here at CFL we like to take a look at good crime fiction and thrillers across all formats, but we have yet to review an…
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Driven

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Written by James Sallis — This is the sequel to Drive and follows hot on the heels of the movie adaptation of that 2005 book, which was directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starred Ryan Gosling. Both a tribute to 80s heist movies such as…
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Shut Your Eyes Tight

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Written by John Verdon — This is the author’s second book, and the second outing for his detective Dave Gurney, a phenomenal investigator who has retired from the NYPD and lives with his wife Madeleine in the Catskill foothills in upstate New York. He must…
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Stolen Souls

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Written by Stuart Neville — I have to admit to being a little in awe of Stuart Neville. His 2009 debut The Twelve, a nuanced and powerfully written novel about The Troubles, was lauded by critics and readers alike. The follow-up Collusion was if anything…
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