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The Shut Eye

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Gold Dagger winner Belinda Bauer‘s latest novel sees a return for DCI Marvel, first encountered in her 2011 story Darkside. Marvel is a true misanthrope, and thinks that the police force in which he serves is ‘peopled by short men with degrees and vegetarian lesbians’….
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The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer

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Expectations are always high for a new novel from Belinda Bauer, winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for her debut, Blacklands, and the most recent recipient of the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (for Rubbernecker). Yet while quality is always assured, you’re…
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The Silent Wife

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Written by ASA Harrison – Publishers and readers alike have been searching for the ‘new’ Gone Girl, following the critical and commercial success of Gillian Flynn’s crime crossover hit about a warring couple who become headline news when she disappears. Official end-of-year sales UK figures…
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Darkness All Around

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Written by Doug Magee — With so many writers seemingly content to meet genre expectations, it’s nice to come across an author not so easily satisfied. Magee isn’t just trying to write a suspenseful thriller here, but write about small town life and how claustrophobic…
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