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The Get Off by Christa Faust

By RoughJustice

31 March, 2025

From New York originally, Christa Faust has worked as a model, a professional dominatrix and as an award-winning writer of original pulp and tie-in fiction. She possesses an unapologetic attitude and an encyclopaedic knowledge of film noir. Her novels featuring Angel Dare are modern noir…

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Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 March, 2025

Hannah Deitch’s debut, Killer Potential, is one of those stories that sneaks up on you and before too many pages have turned has its claws in you good and solid. The story is a first-person narrative in the voice of Evie Gordon, a 20-something whose…

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Where The Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski

By RoughJustice

13 March, 2025

In present day Los Angeles, Dash Fuller is subsidising his stand-up career (going nowhere fast) with some unlicenced private-eye work. The laughs and the gigs are few and far between in either job, but at least it’s better than his previous job. He used to…

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The complete guide to Bosch on Amazon Prime

By DeathBecomesHer

7 March, 2025

Over the years, there have been many attempts to transfer successful crime book series to the small screen. Some have been complete disasters, while others have worked well – think John Thaw as Inspector Morse or Krister Henriksson as Wallander. Heading that second category is…

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The Big Empty by Robert Crais

By Sharon Richardson

14 January, 2025

American writer Robert Crais has a resumé that includes writing for iconic TV shows like Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice. Those accomplishments alone are pretty amazing, but it’s his crime series featuring Elvis Cole and Joe Pike that has attracted die-hard…

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The Waiting by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

14 October, 2024

For fans of Michael Connelly and his characters Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard, a year always seems like a long time to wait for a book featuring one or both of them. Throw in Connelly’s besuited Lincoln Lawyer into the mix, things can get even…

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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 June, 2024

From the first pages of Rachel Howzell Hall’s new psychological thriller, What Fire Brings, Bailey Meadows puts herself in a situation fraught with deception. This young black woman has finagled a writing internship with noted thriller author Jack Beckham, but she isn’t a writer. She’s…

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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

By DeathBecomesHer

5 June, 2024

The world of crime fiction is a broad church, featuring everything from snooping grannies in sleepy rural hamlets to blood spattered serial killers, and everything in between. At the darkest end of that spectrum comes Chris Carter, whose Robert Hunter series is definitely not for…

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The Get Off by Christa Faust

Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch

Where The Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski

The complete guide to Bosch on Amazon Prime

The Big Empty by Robert Crais

The Waiting by Michael Connelly

What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

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