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The Empty Quarter by David L Robbins

By Vicki Weisfeld

4 March, 2016

What an exciting adventure combining military and medical thriller elements! It takes place in the Rub’ al-Khali, which translates as The Empty Quarter of the title. It’s the world’s largest desert and it occupies most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. People are scarce,…

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Jump Cut by Libby Fischer Hellmann

By Vicki Weisfeld

28 February, 2016

In Jump Cut, Chicago-based thriller author Libby Fischer Hellmann brings her outspoken heroine Ellie Foreman back for another exciting adventure after a 10-year hiatus. In the new book, video producer Foreman and her team have been hired to produce a series of puff pieces about…

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Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

By DeathBecomesHer

24 January, 2016

It might sound strange for a reviewer to describe rough, tough, bloodthirsty crime thrillers as their comfort zone, but it’s good to step away from the genre you know and love occasionally. Welcome to the world of spies, double agents, double-crossing and danger, evoked in…

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Fever City by Tim Baker

By Keith Nixon

16 January, 2016

A buzz has been building about this book, and it started long before its release, when the early copies went out to – how shall we put it? – the opinion formers of the crime fiction world. We listed Fever City as one of our…

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NTN: Minute Zero by Todd Moss

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 November, 2015

If you missed Todd Moss’s dramatic 2013 debut with The Golden Hour, you can catch up with his protagonist Judd Ryker in Moss’s second book, the recently released Minute Zero. The crimes he deals with are writ large: political chicanery, assassination, theft and corruption at…

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The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

By DavidPrestidge

20 September, 2015

One look at the cover of this book, and you know that Chastity has been well and truly corrupted. Frank Westworth’s second Killing Sisters noir novel offers guns, girls, guitars and gruesome violence according to one of the blurbs. JJ Stoner is, among other things,…

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The Bone Tree by Greg Iles

By DavidPrestidge

30 June, 2015

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 Bone Tree by Greg Iles

By DavidPrestidge

12 June, 2015

Penn Cage is many things. He is a writer, a former top lawyer, and now Mayor of the historic Mississippi city of Natchez. However, history can wear many cloaks. As well as the romance of the river with its paddle boats, and the glory of…

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The Empty Quarter by David L Robbins

Jump Cut by Libby Fischer Hellmann

Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

Fever City by Tim Baker

NTN: Minute Zero by Todd Moss

The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

The Bone Tree by Greg Iles

The Bone Tree by Greg Iles

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