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The Far Empty by J Todd Scott

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 June, 2016

It’s hard to believe this well-crafted crime thriller is a debut novel. The author’s experience as a DEA agent lends authority to his prose, and his meticulous rendering of the Big Bend country south and east of El Paso, Texas, and its fictional town, Murfee,…

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Shank: Tool's Law I by Roy Harper

By DavidPrestidge

18 May, 2016

David Roney has done bad things and he is paying for his transgressions. He is locked up in the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known in music, myth and legend as Parchman Farm. It is full of brutal men, kept under lock and key by equally…

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Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard

By DavidPrestidge

27 April, 2016

Written by Catherine Ryan Howard — Some books arrive at CFL HQ in a standard padded envelope. Others appear dressed to the nines, and that’s how Distress Signals first arrived with its custom wrapping paper, tied with a ribbon. Have a look here. Does it live…

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A Fine House in Trinity by Lesley Kelly

By DeathBecomesHer

24 April, 2016

Remember the old saying ‘you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family’? Well, what if you have a pretty bad taste in friends too? Many people seem to have this problem, including Joe Staines, or Stainesie as he’s better known in his…

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The Primrose Path by Rebecca Griffiths

By DeathBecomesHer

20 April, 2016

It’s a well worn plot device, much beloved of those old-fashioned Western movies I recall from my childhood. The stranger with a secret arrives in a sleepy frontier town, is eyed with suspicion by the locals and goes on to cause ructions. Fast forward to…

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Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg

By Vicki Weisfeld

15 April, 2016

In poet Melissa Ginsburg’s debut crime novel, her home town of Houston becomes as much a character as the protagonist, Charlotte Ford, a young woman in her early 20s. Houston’s suffocating heat and dark corners, its breakneck freeways, its seedy bars and lush suburbs –…

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The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

By Jeremy Megraw

8 April, 2016

Translated by Neil Smith — It’s been a decade since the posthumous publication of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which kicked off a global fascination in all things Nordic noir. Ever since, the holy grail for readers and publishers alike has been to find the next…

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Dodgers by Bill Beverly

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 March, 2016

A modern crime classic in the tradition of Richard Price’s Clockers, Dodgers is the story of a youthful soldier in the south Los Angeles drug trade. East, a black 16-year-old, is a yardman for a drug house, which means he runs a team of younger…

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The Far Empty by J Todd Scott

Shank: Tool's Law I by Roy Harper

Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard

A Fine House in Trinity by Lesley Kelly

The Primrose Path by Rebecca Griffiths

Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg

The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

Dodgers by Bill Beverly

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