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The Bone Tree by Greg Iles

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This is the sequel to Greg Iles’ epic novel Natchez Burning and it tells the story of a decades-old battle in Louisiana and Mississipi between ruthless racist organisations and the forces of law and order. The Bone Tree itself is a semi-mythical dead tree in the…
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The Blue and the Grey by MJ Trow

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14 April, 1865. Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC. As the packed house laughs and cheers its way through Tom Taylor’s Our American Cousin, a shot rings out and gunsmoke drifts into the gas-lit spotlights. A very special theatre-goer, none other than Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president…
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A Thief in the Night by Stephen Wade

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Or to give it its full title, A Thief in the Night And Other Adventures of the Septimus Society. By day, Stephen Wade, is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at the University of Hull. He’s also a freelance writer and historian, specialising in crime…
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The Darkest Heart

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Dan Smith is a wizard at conjuring up the atmosphere of inaccessible, hostile locations around the world. This time it’s the mining landscape of inland Brazil, where capitalist greed is rife and human life cheap. This is essentially a rewriting of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,…
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NTN: Welcome to Dead Man's Party

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Crime fiction and comic books share some of the same genealogy. Think back to the days of pulp magazines when detective, horror, sci-fi and cowboy stories all intermingled, printed on cheap paper imported into the United States… with whiskey bottles shoved between the rolls. While…
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