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A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

24 August, 2014

The setting is 1920, in the teeming city of Madras (present day Chennai) on the south eastern coast of India. Superintendent Christian Le Fanu of the Indian Police Service has been called to the banks of a filthy city canal which is, in reality, little…

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The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson

By DeathBecomesHer

5 August, 2014

We first met DCI Billy McCartney in 2013, in The Killing Pool, which I picked as my top book of that year here on CFL. Now he’s back in a story that straddles a gap of almost a quarter of a century. The action begins…

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The Edge of Sanity by Sheryl Browne

By DavidPrestidge

1 July, 2014

Just outside Worcester, in the relative peace of rural England, Daniel Conner owns a canal boatyard. Or rather he did. He’s selling the business and is waiting for the contract to be finalised. He desperately needs to move on with his wife and daughter. The…

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Necropolis

By crimefictionlover

30 June, 2014

If you are amused by cruel humour, then a word to the wise – don’t read this book on the bus or the train, as you will be reduced to fits of giggles. Main character Dyson Devereux is an acerbic and savage commentator on the…

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Blood Whispers by John Gordon Sinclair

By Raven

27 June, 2014

Following his blistering crime debut Seventy Times Seven, actor John Gordon Sinclair returns to the crime fiction scene with his new thriller Blood Whispers. Delving into the murky world of Eastern European gangsters, CIA operatives, and one lawyer’s fight for justice for her client who…

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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

By Andre

23 June, 2014

It’s an audacious move putting the name of your detective in the title of a novel, but Claire DeWitt is a big enough character to justify such confidence. The second novel in Sara Gran’s San Francisco crime series is a strange, heady narrative that draws…

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Game for Five by Marco Malvaldi

By Raven

24 May, 2014

Translated by Howard Curtis — Game For Five is the first instalment in the Bar Lume series, which are bestsellers in the author’s native Italy. Set in a small coastal town in Tuscany, the book features Massimo – a barman and amateur sleuth – and…

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Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2014

As the Edgar Award-winning author John Straley mentions in his notes at the end of this book, he considers his writing to be screwball comedy as much as it is crime fiction. Indeed, Cold Storage, Alaska is full of unusual and ironic things that’ll make…

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A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart

The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson

The Edge of Sanity by Sheryl Browne

Necropolis

Blood Whispers by John Gordon Sinclair

Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

Game for Five by Marco Malvaldi

Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley

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