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Web of the City

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Written by Harlan Ellison — Hard Case Crime is back on the re-issue beat, this time with Ellison’s debut, written whilst he finished his Army training and first published in 1958. To add value, the publisher has given the book another great cover by Glen…
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Smile of the Viper

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Written by Harry Dunn — Take one downbeat gumshoe, add a beautiful damsel in distress and all you need is a bad impression of Humphrey Bogart to create the recipe for a cliched fictional view of the life of a private detective. Thankfully, Harry Dunn…
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Swear Down

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Written by Russ Litten — Swear Down is the difficult second novel for Hull-based author and scriptwriter Russ Litten. His first was Scream If You Want To Go Faster, which poignantly studied a series of different characters attending the last day of the Hull Fair, Europe’s…
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News

Photographic evidence: Cold Killing

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Regular readers of Crime Fiction Lover will know that we like it when book publishers go that extra mile – for instance with a really well-designed cover, or a nice slipcase for a neatly printed book. This week, their PR machines have been a little…
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The Killing Pool

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Written by Kevin Sampson — Welcome to The Killing Pool, a book that’s so dark you may well need a torch to read it. Set in the mean streets of Liverpool, it features the lowest of lowlifes – and I don’t just mean the criminals. Liverpool…
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Chamber Music

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Written by Tom Benn — Chamber Music is the second gritty thriller to feature Tom Benn’s protagonist Henry Bane. The first was the The Doll Princess. I didn’t get a chance to read it, but it generated a buzz and was nominated for the Dylan…
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Rough Riders

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With a five-star review on this site, and chosen by RoughJustice as his favourite crime book of 2012, Rough Riders by Charlie Stella comes highly recommended. “Stella moves his chronicling of New York’s wise guys to the snowy terrain of North Dakota in a tale…
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NTN: Junkie

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Written by Robert French — Junkie is a crime thriller that roars and booms its way up, down, under and over the Western Canadian city of Vancouver. Although it was called the most livable city in the world by the Economist last year, everybody in…
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