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Ghost Girl by Lesley Thomson

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In the second Detective’s Daughter mystery, accidental detective and owner of a cleaning business, Stella Darnell, inherits another case. Her father, Superintendent Terry Darnell, has been dead for a year but Stella is unable to move on. She still visits his house daily, almost expecting his…
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Silence the Dead by Jack Fredrickson

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Author Jack Fredrickson is based in Chicago, and has written four crime thrillers featuring a down-and-out Windy City investigator called Dek Elstrom. This is a standalone story, but still set in Illinois. Silence the Dead begins in 1982 in the little town of Grand Point….
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Bad Tidings by Nick Oldham

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It is a cold Lancashire New Year’s Day. Dark and early. Detective Superintendent Henry Christie of Lancashire CID is deeply asleep in his lady-friend’s bed. She is a pub landlady, and is exhausted after several days of seasonal festivities. But as it always does, the…
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Ned Kelly Awards 2012 shortlist revealed

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The shortlist for Australia’s annual crime writing gongs, The Ned Kelly Awards, was released this week. While the big publishers usually dominate the Neddies, this year it’s a clean sweep – Allen and Unwin, Pan Macmillan, Harper Collins and Random House have carved up the…
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Cold Grave

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Written by Craig Robertson — Random, Robertson’s first novel, is a firm fixture on my top 10 crimes novels. Genuinely chilling and with one of the most retch-inducing murders ever committed to paper it marked him out as an author to watch. His next, Snapshot,…
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