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Phantom

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Estranged from Rakel and her son Oleg, whom you may know from previous books, Harry Hole returns to Olso when Oleg, now a drug dealer, kills another junkie. The youth looks very guilty but Harry Hole finds flaws in the obvious explanation and sets about…
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The Truth about Scarlet Rose

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Julia Madeleine is a wife, a mother, a tattoo artist and a crime fiction writer. In fact, she even has a blog where people talk about the crime book they’re reading whilst getting a tattoo. Today we bring you news of the author’s new novel…
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The Damage

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Written by Howard Linskey — The sequel to the highly successful debut novel The Drop, The Damage brings David Blake back to Newcastle upon Tyne for more gangstery hijinks. Introduced in The Drop, Blake seems to be an ordinary man thrust down a road usually…
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Murder Mile

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Written by Tony Black — The term ‘tartan noir’ might have been coined for Tony Black. His Gus Dury series, following the gradual downward spiral of an Edinburgh-based private investigator with an Olympic grade drink problem and a tangled love life, was a brutal tour…
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Tumblin' Dice by John McFetridge

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In music, I like bands and singers who explore not only different themes and styles, but also try different sounds and voices. Same with writers. As some of them will tell you, everything has been said already, you just need to take a new approach,…
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Phantom

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Written by Jo Nesbo, translated by Don Bartlett — If you’ve read Stieg Larsson’s dragon tattoo books and want more of that nordic noir then Jo Nesbo is just the thing, though you might find his work darker, and more dramatic. Phantom is his seventh…
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