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Headline Murder by Peter Bartram

By DavidPrestidge

26 October, 2015

In this cosy mystery, Peter Bartram introduces us to a delightfully old fashioned journalist. Colin Crampton is the chief crime reporter for the Brighton Evening Chronicle. Old fashioned? Well yes, because it is 1962, and Crampton’s method of securing a scoop comes via a spiral…

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On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 September, 2015

Is it OK to say a book by a male author is charming? Regardless of possible gender-bias, this book is. Del and Louise are a couple brought together by crime. They met when Del was robbing the 7-11 in Eagle Nest, New Mexico, where Louise…

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CIS: The Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson

By DavidPrestidge

16 September, 2015

Colin Watson was one of those writers who certainly had his day in the sun, but is largely forgotten in these days of supermarket best-sellers and huge promotional budgets for writers thought to be the next big thing. Watson was a modest man. Born in Croydon…

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A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

By MarinaSofia

24 July, 2015

Nobody does dark and twisted better than Sophie Hannah, but after an inroad into Agatha Christie territory with The Monogram Murders, she seems in no hurry to get back to her crime series featuring Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse. In this contemporary standalone novel, Hannah…

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Cookie's Case by Andy Siegel

By DavidPrestidge

15 March, 2015

Here in the UK, personal injury lawyers have the same enviable reputation for frankness, honesty and personal probity as estate agents, party politicians and sellers of miracle anti-ageing cream. Therefore it was with a touch of reluctance that I started to read a tale centred…

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The Blue and the Grey by MJ Trow

By DavidPrestidge

25 December, 2014

14 April, 1865. Ford’s Theatre, Washington DC. As the packed house laughs and cheers its way through Tom Taylor’s Our American Cousin, a shot rings out and gunsmoke drifts into the gas-lit spotlights. A very special theatre-goer, none other than Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president…

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Stumped by Rob Kitchin

By Keith Nixon

14 December, 2014

Grant, a new arrival from England to Dublin, and his wheelchair-bound companion, Mary have a problem. Grant’s flatmate, Sinead, has gone missing from the house they share, only a bloody severed finger left in her place. There’s also a note addressed to Pat which says…

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Guns of Brixton by Paul D Brazill

By RoughJustice

13 December, 2014

If you’re a regular visitor to the site may recall our review of A Case of Noir, an excellent serial novel by Paul D Brazill that we looked at in June. It was a collection of individual stories which could be read sequentially to tell…

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Headline Murder by Peter Bartram

On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor

CIS: The Flaxborough Chronicles by Colin Watson

A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

Cookie's Case by Andy Siegel

The Blue and the Grey by MJ Trow

Stumped by Rob Kitchin

Guns of Brixton by Paul D Brazill

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