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Classics in September 2015 - a recap

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It’s been a nice autumn so far, and hopefully we’ve managed to make it even more glorious for you with our theme month, Classics in September. Each September, we like to remember the finest crime fiction books and authors of years gone by and celebrate…
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CIS: The Joe Kurtz novels by Dan Simmons

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Dan Simmons was already well into his writing career when he began the Joe Kurtz series. Prior to the first book, Hardcase (2001), Simmons was known as first a science fiction and then later as a horror writer. Most recently Simmons has been writing books…
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Delving Deeper by Josh K Stevens

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The second Deuce Walsh thriller follows on from April’s Scratch the Surface. We found that book to be an exciting first instalment to the trilogy, and a Midwestern hardboiled gangster novel with shades of Elmore Leonard and Donald E Westlake. We noted that Scratch the Surface…
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Vortex by Paul D Marks

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Vortex is a first-person narrated novella which readers can blast through in a couple of hours. It’s a hardboiled thriller with strong noir overtones, and is about the past – how you can’t change it or the mistakes you’ve made, and how the past changes…
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The Big Bitch by John Patrick Lang

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So, what is left of Jackson ‘Doc’ Holiday’s world, now that his multi-million dollar fraud scheme has collapsed around his ears? Well, there’s the Armani suits, Gucci loafers and handmade shirts, for starters. A total pariah in the legitimate financial world, what does he do?…
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The Breaks by Eden Sharp

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In the hardboiled thriller The Breaks we meet two engaging and memorable characters – private investigator Angela McGlynn and her sometime associate John Knox. McGlynn is self-assured and sassy, a computer hacking whiz and martial arts expert, not above using her attractiveness to lure bad guys into compromising…
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First look: So Nude, So Dead

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What do you think of this front cover, painted by Greg Manchess? The artist is one of the finest when it comes to recreating that old school pulp style, and as he’s explained the odd viewing angle enabled him to strategically position a lightbulb to,…
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We Shall Inherit the Wind

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With a somewhat philosophical title, this is Gunnar Staalesen’s latest Varg Veum book to appear in English. As a private detective, Veum is unusual in Scandinavian crime fiction and here he’s hired by a woman to find her missing husband. He’s an executive in a…
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