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The Fire Maker

By MarinaSofia

30 June, 2016

Written by Peter May — Crime fiction fans know and love Peter May for his very atmospheric Lewis trilogy and we’ve reviewed The Chessmen and a recent standalone likewise set in the Outer Hebrides, Coffin Road. The author has since moved on to the Gulf of St Lawrence…

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Baby Doll

By DeathBecomesHer

23 June, 2016

Written by Hollie Overton — Twins have loomed large in some of fiction’s finest moments. Who can forget that creepy pair in Stephen King’s The Shining, and how about David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers for unnerving? SK Tremayne’s The Ice Twins – one of my favourite crime…

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A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

By crimefictionlover

12 June, 2016

Calcutta, 1919, and the city is full of rising men. There are the colonials making fortunes in commodities like rubber and jute, or grafting in the administration in ways they never could back in the UK. There are cloth merchants and bankers. There are the…

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Cold Blood, Hot Sea by Charlene D'Avanzo

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 June, 2016

This amateur sleuth story, billed as ‘A Mara Tusconi Mystery’ introduces Mara, age 31, whose work at the Maine Oceanographic Institute (MOI) centres on the timely subject of climate change. D’Avanzo deserves credit for taking on the difficult task of making science accessible to a…

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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 Fire Maker

Baby Doll

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

Cold Blood, Hot Sea by Charlene D'Avanzo

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

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