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She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

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Whichever category you choose to assign She Rides Shotgun to – debut novel, chase thriller, hardboiled man-out-of-prison drama, or even twisted coming of age novel – one thing’s for sure: you won’t read many better examples all year. (The book is out in the US…
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

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Written by Michael Connelly — “If you’re not a cop, you’re little people,” is a quotation that appears more than once in this book. And Harry Bosch isn’t a cop any more, not really. After a long-winded lawsuit against the LAPD from which Bosch received a…
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Need More Road

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Written by Stephen Jared — Eddie Howard is almost 50 years old. He has worked in the same bank and lived in the same house in Barstow, California, his entire adult life. It is the early 1950s and Eddie spends his days working and his nights and…
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Burning Bright

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Written by Nick Petrie — Nick Petrie’s debut, The Drifter, was our favourite first novel of 2016. So, 2017 starts with a bang for the author with the sequel, Burning Bright, released on 10 January. The book sees the return of is Peter Ash, a veteran Marine…
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Combustion

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Written by Martin J Smith — It’s some kind of progress to see the growth in the number of crime novels and television series that give hardworking male police detectives a woman boss. And, I guess it reflects even more progress that these female supervisors…
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The Time to Kill

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Written by Mason Cross — Carter Blake is a man for hire. He tracks down people who don’t want to be found and he’s very good at his job having been trained by a covert government department called Winterlong. Blake is currently in California, engaged by…
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