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Quarry's Deal by Max Allan Collins

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Max Allan Collins, the writer of the original graphic novel The Road to Perdition that became the popular film, has been around for years. He’s written crime novels, comics and movie and TV novelisations. Batman, Dick Tracy, and the PI Nathan Heller series have all…
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Six and a Half Deadly Sins

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Written by Colin Cotterill — It’s the late 1970s in Laos, and Dr Siri Paiboun, retired coroner for the Laotian Communist Party, drags himself once again out of retirement to solve a mystery. It all starts when Siri receives in the mail an elaborately embroidered…
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NTN: Stasi Child by David Young

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David Young is a member of the first cohort of writers who’ve graduated from London’s City University’s MA in Crime Writing and is beginning to make a name for himself. Stasi Child is his debut novel. It was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and…
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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada

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Translated by Ross and Shika Mackenzie — Author Soji Shimada, whose groundbreaking 1981 novel has recently been translated afresh by Pushkin Press, is considered the godfather of the Shin-honkaku school of crime fiction in Japan. He inspired the New Orthodox group that aimed to return mystery fiction in…
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Oblivion

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As titles go, Arnaldur Indridason’s Oblivion is pretty downbeat, but this is an enthralling look at the younger days of the glum Icelandic Detective Erlendur. Fans of the mature Elendur will know that one of his chief fixations is about missing persons, and this is…
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Tennison by Lynda La Plante

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Jane Tennison, a young policewoman fresh out of Hendon Training College, makes the daily journey from her parents’ comfortable flat in Maida Vale to Hackney. It’s a grim place and resolutely working class. Being a woman police constable in 1972 – the gender distinction was…
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