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The Cartel by Don Winslow

By RoughJustice

28 June, 2015

The Power of the Dog, Don Winslow’s first depiction of America’s war on drugs, changed perceptions of its author when it was published in 2005. Winslow was already an established writer stateside and a winner of the Edgar Award, but became an international success thanks…

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And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley

By DavidPrestidge

23 May, 2015

New York PI Leonid Trotter McGill has a chaotic personal life. His wife is lying in a care home, broken and depressed as a result of years of mutual betrayal and infidelity. His brother is serving a life term in an Indiania prison. His son…

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The Burning Man

By crimefictionlover

14 April, 2015

By the time a series reaches its 12th novel, it can lose some of its spark. Not so, it seems, with Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May which features the Peculiar Crimes Unit. In The Burning Man our favourite pair of ageing detectives are dealing with a…

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The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

By Keith Nixon

27 March, 2015

Written by Christopher Fowler — London is a city under siege, its angry population taking to the streets to protest at yet another banking scandal which has spewed out onto an already jaded political landscape. In the run up to 5 November, Guy Fawkes Night, thousands…

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Natchez Burning

By DavidPrestidge

19 January, 2015

This is a giant of a book in length, moral stature, and the sheer intensity of the writing. Penn Cage is a lawyer-turned-politician in Natchez, Mississipi – a small town with a big history. As the ghosts of the paddle steamers chug silently by on the…

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Every Secret Thing by Christopher Bartley

By DavidPrestidge

20 December, 2014

Ross Duncan is not a good man. His CV is full of death and destruction. Banks robbed, lives cut short, violence meted out – all have their paragraphs. Look under the blankets in the trunk of his supercharged Dodge, and you will find an arsenal…

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NTN: The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

By Andre

6 November, 2014

Debut novels rarely have quite the impact of The Devil in the Marshalsea, which is currently part of the sales-boosting Richard and Judy Book Club with WH Smith. It was also nominated for the CWA John Creasy Dagger and won the CWA Historical Dagger, though…

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Heartman by MP Wright

By DavidPrestidge

25 June, 2014

There is a deep irony from the outset in the setting of this book. We are in the wintry and snow covered English city of Bristol. It is 1964. Two centuries earlier, Bristol was one of the main European ports exporting African slaves to the…

Crime Fiction Lover

The Cartel by Don Winslow

And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley

The Burning Man

The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

Natchez Burning

Every Secret Thing by Christopher Bartley

NTN: The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Heartman by MP Wright

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