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The Comedy is Finished

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Written by Donald E Westlake — Completed in the early 1980s, the manuscript for The Comedy is Finished was apparently put to one side by Westlake who feared it was too similar to Scorsese’s The King of Comedy. Discovered after his death by writer Max…
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The Dispatcher

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Written by Ryan David Jahn — The Dispatcher is an adrenaline- and fear-fueled adventure of hope and vengeance. It takes the reader on a journey through small towns across the country and into the souls of desperate and driven people. No quarter is given and…
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Shatter the Bones

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Stuart MacBride’s story here centres on the kidnapping of Alison Gregory and her six-year-old daughter Jenny. They are singing sensations from the reality TV show Britain’s Next Big Star. Logan McRae investigates but runs into problems when no evidence of any kind is available, other…
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A Medal for Murder

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Written by Frances Brody — Following on from her success with the Braithwaite case in Dying in the Wool, private investigator Kate Shackleton and her assistant Jim Sykes take on a robbery case for a pawn broker. The duo are charged with personally informing the…
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Shatter The Bones

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Written by Stuart MacBride – With the seventh book in the Logan McRae series, Stuart MacBride delivers another unrelenting, incredibly bleak read, whilst also being spell-bindingly brilliant! The story centres on the kidnapping of singing sensations from the reality TV show Britain’s Next Big Star,…
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Mercy

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Mercy unfolds like a police procedural but has an urgent, thrilling edge to it thanks to Adler-Olsen’s great storytelling. He sets up cliff-hangers with poise, pulling you on through the chapters even though for long periods detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad are investigating…
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Mercy

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Written by Jussi Adler-Olsen — This is the first of four books in the author’s Department Q series to be translated from Danish into English. And, if you’re into your Scandinavian crime fiction like I am, I’d be very surprised if you don’t find it…
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