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The Dead Beat by Doug Johnstone

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With a story that features suicide, clinical depression and the struggling newspaper industry in Edinburgh, The Dead Beat might sound like a gloomy read. It’s certainly a hard-hitting psychological thriller, though its 90s grunge soundtrack and troubled, headstrong protagonist give the novel an angsty energy…
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Cast-Iron Men

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Written by Dominic Kearney — As 2007 draws to a close, the city of Liverpool looks like a giant building site as it prepares to take centre stage as the 2008 European City of Culture. It’s a huge fillip for a city that has been…
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Devil with a Gun

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Written by MC Grant — With all of the recent fuss about writers’ pseudonyms, perhaps MC Grant is justified in telling us up front that this name is a not so heavily disguised version of his actual name, Grant McKenzie, under which he has written a…
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The Other Woman

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Written by Hank Phillippi Ryan – The Other Woman is a title, and a phrase, shot through with double meaning in Ryan’s engaging thriller. Double meanings abound throughout Ryan’s tale, much to my delight. The publisher is billing the upcoming paperback release as a ‘beach…
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Watch You Die

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Written by Katia Lief – The phone rings while Darcy Mayhew is making dinner and suddenly her life is turned upside down. Her husband Hugo has been in an accident while driving on Middle Road and now he is dead. Nearly two years later she…
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