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The Mad and the Bad

8 October, 2014

When a kidnapping goes wrong a young nanny, just released from an asylum, and her charge are pursued across the French countryside by bungling gangsters and a dyspeptic English hitman. This story is equal parts hardboiled thriller and capitalist satire. Winner of the French Grand…

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Personal by Lee Child

By DavidPrestidge

22 September, 2014

Jack Reacher, once a major in the US Military Police and now a drifter, is on a bus. That it is not unusual for Reacher. He doesn’t own a car or carry a suitcase, and when his clothes wear out he just buys new ones….

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CIS: Rogue Male revisited

By Andre

7 September, 2014

Geoffrey Household’s most famous novel is a period piece that exerts such a powerful grip on the contemporary reader it may well be the best crime thriller to be published in 2014. Rogue Male was reissued this summer to mark the book’s 75th anniversary. Twelve…

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CIS: The Day of the Jackal revisited

By DavidPrestidge

1 September, 2014

When Frederick Forsyth wrote The Day of the Jackal, it was a shot in the dark. The writer had produced a factual book about the war in Biafra, which took place in the late 1960s, but it hadn’t done too well. His stab at a…

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The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette

By RoughJustice

14 August, 2014

Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith — Last month we celebrated Bastille Day with a look at the best French crime fiction. My two suggestions for that list were written by Manchette. The quality of this author hasn’t escaped the eye of publishers New York Review Books,…

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The Crocodile by Maurizio de Giovanni

By MarinaSofia

8 August, 2014

Neapolitan author Maurizio de Giovanni is a new Italian name that Little Brown is seeking to bring attention to via English translations of his books. He launched his career in Italy in 2005 with an award-winning set of short stories, and has also penned a…

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The Darkest Heart by Dan Smith

By MarinaSofia

9 July, 2014

Set in a little-known part of Brazil, this is a novel which explores the very thin line between darkness and light, life and death, good and evil in this country of contrasts. Yet in the process, it delves into the very same contrasts within the…

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Kill Your Boss

By crimefictionlover

30 June, 2014

In addition to a title that’s hard to resist, Kill Your Boss has an excellent premise behind it. What if a hired killer could nestle within a company as an unpaid intern, biding his time until the right moment arrives to execute a high-paid executive?…

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The Mad and the Bad

Personal by Lee Child

CIS: Rogue Male revisited

CIS: The Day of the Jackal revisited

The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette

The Crocodile by Maurizio de Giovanni

The Darkest Heart by Dan Smith

Kill Your Boss

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