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Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

By RoughJustice

24 March, 2025

Friends Helping Friends is the story of two young men and one slightly older woman in present day Denver, Colorado. At the beginning of the story the two men, Bunny Simpson and Jerry LeClair know each other, and are indeed friends. Neither of them know…

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Pele's Prerogative by Albert Tucher

By Vicki Weisfeld

13 February, 2025

Had it with wind, winter, and the dark? A Hawai`i vacation might be just what you need. Albert Tucher’s new Big Island Mystery, Pele’s Prerogative, provides plenty of local colour to make you think you’ve vacationed in that island paradise, but without jet-lag or the…

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Edda Green by Peter Sarda

By Paul Burke

13 January, 2025

Edda Green concludes Peter Sarda’s Hamburg Noir trilogy featuring detectives Ritter and Beck, though the pair who first appeared in One Way Ticket take a backseat here. This is very much Edda Green’s story. It’s a violent, gritty tale steeped in the left-wing politics and…

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Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

By Sharon Richardson

15 April, 2024

Pay Dirt is the 22nd book in the VI Warshawski series by veteran US crime author Sara Paretsky. Back in the 1980s, female characters in crime novels tended to be vamps or victims, according to the author, so at that time a lead character like…

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The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 April, 2023

Translated by Rachel Ward — Unlike Erdinger or St Pauli Girl, German crime fiction doesn’t always travel as well as the country’s beers. However, the Chastity Riley series by Simone Buchholz has been something to behold. Beginning with Blue Night, Orenda Books has translated and…

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Run to Ground by Stuart Johnstone

By Paul Burke

29 November, 2022

The term Tartan noir might be getting a little tired or over used but gritty Scottish crime fiction still seems to be at the vanguard of British crime writing. Run to Ground is an Edinburgh set police procedural, the third outing for Sergeant Don Colyear….

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Truth is a Flightless Bird by Akbar Hussain

By Paul Burke

5 October, 2022

We still don’t see much authentic African crime fiction in Britain or America, less still from Kenya, so this promising debut is to be welcomed for helping to pave the way. Truth is a Flightless Bird is an intriguing mystery about the drugs trade and…

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What Follows by Dylan H Jones

By Paul Burke

30 August, 2022

What Follows is the first in a new California-set series featuring detective Roscoe Tanner of the Oakland Homicide Division. It’s written by the Welsh writer Dylan H Jones, who now lives on the West Coast and has clearly soaked up the local vibe. He’s also…

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Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman

Pele's Prerogative by Albert Tucher

Edda Green by Peter Sarda

Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

Run to Ground by Stuart Johnstone

Truth is a Flightless Bird by Akbar Hussain

What Follows by Dylan H Jones

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