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Tommy Red by Charlie Stella

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It is nearly four years since Rough Riders, a fictionalisation of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger‘s story, topped my end of year list. A lot has happened in the crime fiction field since then, most notably the genre-devouring Gone Girl and the whole phenomenon that is domestic noir….
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Quarry's Deal by Max Allan Collins

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Max Allan Collins, the writer of the original graphic novel The Road to Perdition that became the popular film, has been around for years. He’s written crime novels, comics and movie and TV novelisations. Batman, Dick Tracy, and the PI Nathan Heller series have all…
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NTN: The Dark Inside by Rod Reynolds

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The debut novel from Rod Reynolds arrives with a curious comparison: ‘for fans of True Detective’ has been added on the cover. You can understand the marketing motivation, but this book doesn’t really resemble the modern-era crime drama tinged with cosmic terror that was created…
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NTN: Jukebox by Saira Viola

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Written by Saira Viola – The inter-connected worlds of media, celebrity and good old-fashioned London gangsters are all ripe for humorous treatment in a crime novel, which is exactly what new author Saira Viola does with Jukebox. A freewheeling, darkly humorous exposé of the city’s…
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Naked Shall I Return

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Christopher Bartley introduced his craggy anti-hero Ross Duncan in Every Secret Thing, and now the chain smoking tough guy returns. He leads us on a mesmerising journey through San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1930s, where he encounters every vice he has ever heard of –…
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