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Blood Whispers by John Gordon Sinclair

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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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Game for Five by Marco Malvaldi

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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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Sorrow Bound

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We interviewed former journalist David Mark after his previous novel Original Skin won universal praise in crime fiction circles. The intriguingly named lynchpins of that book, Aector McAvoy and Trish Pharoah are back. Their stamping grounds remain the unlovely Humberside port of Hull. In an…
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Hustle

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Hotel, motel, car seat – Donny and Big Rich don’t really mind as long as their tricks pay up and they can get their hands on some smack when their work is done. But understand this, though they’re male prostitutes working San Francisco’s Tenderloin district,…
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Beams Falling

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PM Newton’s Beams Falling features Sydney detective Nhu ‘Ned’ Kelly who, because of her Vietnamese background, is given responsibility for cleaning up clean up Cabramatta, an outer western suburb that’s home to 10,000 refugees from the Vietnam War. Amongst these new Australians various street gangs…
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Necropolis by Guy Portman

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Dyson Devereux is Head of Burials and Cemeteries for the local council of a fictional town in Essex, England. He has risen without trace, mainly due to the demise of his predecessor, whose funeral and cremation he helped organise. Dyson is immensely vain, impossibly handsome,…
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