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Harry Bosch returns in Bosch: Legacy – full preview

15 April, 2022

Harry Bosch, Maddie Bosch and Honey Chandler return to our screens on 6 May in Bosch: Legacy, a spinoff that continues on from Amazon Prime Video‘s seven-season series, revealing a different side to each of these key characters. Premiering free on Freevee via Prime Video,…

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Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian

By RoughJustice

29 March, 2022

Set in San Francisco’s Bay Area, Under Lock and Skeleton Key is the first book in a new series of cosies called the Secret Staircase Mysteries from San Francisco-based author, Gigi Pandian. She has previously won both the Agatha and Anthony awards, and is known…

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The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 February, 2022

In The Goodbye Coast, author Joe Ide abandons his popular crime-solver Isaiah Quintabe in favour of a 21st century private investigator: Philip Marlowe. Yes, really! Raymond Chandler’s definitive detective has been reinvented by Ide and he’s working on two compelling missing persons cases at once….

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The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

10 November, 2021

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love a clever book title, and this one is a case in point. At first glance it seems all too obvious – after all, the main protagonist, LAPD Detective Renee Ballard, is on permanent night duty, working the graveyard…

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OJ's Knife by John Gibson

By Paul Burke

5 November, 2021

OJ’s Knife is a fast-paced and entertaining speculative pulp novel in the Mickey Judge series. It’s based on a fictional hunt for the weapon that killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994, crimes for which Nicole’s husband, the American Football legend and film…

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We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

By Vicki Weisfeld

17 August, 2021

It’s the season when all the crime, mystery, and thriller awards are just about in. The lists always reveal one or two gems missed in the past year, like Chris Whitaker’s We Begin at the End. The book was named the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime…

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Burying the Newspaper Man by Curtis Ippolito

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2021

Burying the Newspaper Man is a stylish and engaging police procedural from debut novelist Curtis Ippolito, a San Diego charity worker and former journalist. This novel is in the style and spirit of California noir but is an intriguing and original piece of storytelling. The…

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A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

By Paul Burke

13 May, 2021

Jonathan Ames is perhaps best known for his tense and emotionally draining psychological drama You Were Never Really Here, published in 2013. It was his first noir novel and told the story of a man driven by his own childhood trauma to rescue victims of…

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Harry Bosch returns in Bosch: Legacy – full preview

Under Lock & Skeleton Key by Gigi Pandian

The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly

OJ's Knife by John Gibson

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

Burying the Newspaper Man by Curtis Ippolito

A Man Named Doll by Jonathan Ames

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