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A classic revisited: Gorky Park

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Ronald Reagan was steering his course to the White House when Gorky Park came out in 1981. Meanwhile, an ageing autocrat called Leonid Brezhnev, with mighty eyebrows, was the General Secretary of the USSR. In the West, we worried about mutually assured nuclear armageddon. The…
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Hard Road

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Written by JB Turner — Jon Reznick is the anti-hero of this conspiracy thriller. His wife was killed in 9/11 and his whole world is his daughter Lauren. He’s tried to keep her as separate as possible from his work both for her safety and…
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The Expats by Chris Pavone

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Moving to Luxembourg with her very average husband Dexter, Kate Moore, who is an ex CIA agent turned full time mum, expects a life of leisure looking after the kids and touring Europe on weekends. What she doesn’t bargain for is discovering that her new best…
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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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Rough Riders

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Written by Charlie Stella — This New York writer has been on my radar for some time. Never quite breaking out, he has however amassed a solid reputation as a writer of hardboiled, streetwise crime fiction over the course of several novels. When Bill Crider…
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Let the Devil Sleep

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Written by John Verdon – Detective Dave Gurney is a living legend. He was once an eminent NYPD homicide detective. Now he’s retired, but that doesn’t stop him from solving crimes and foiling homicidal sociopaths. Let the Devil Sleep is the third of Gurney’s adventures,…
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Blind Faith

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Written by CJ Lyons — Sarah Durandt’s husband and young son were murdered by a psychopathic paedophile, Damian Wright. He goes to his grave two years later via a lethal injection in a Texas prison, without revealing where the bodies are. Having witnessed Wright’s death,…
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Fireproof

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Written by Alex Kava —  A down-and-out former accountant returns to his cardboard box home in an industrial unit on the edge of Washington DC. He is furious to find that there is someone else in his space. His anger turns to horror when he…
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