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The Burning Air

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Written by Erin Kelly — The Poison Tree was a remarkable debut, a very English psychological suspense novel about an outsider enchanted by glamorous new friends. It was adapted for television in the UK and Erin Kelly showed an equally sure touch with her next…
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Summertime All the Cats Are Bored

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Written by Philippe Georget — Despite the distinctively postmodern title, this book is not a noir-ish meditation on the futility of existence. Instead, it is a straightforward though not to say simplistic police procedural. Summertime All the Cats Are Bored is set in the Perpignan area…
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Dead Line

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Written by Chris Ewan — Earlier this year Chris Ewan‘s first stand alone thriller Safe House became a runaway success, dominating the Kindle charts for months, and garnering rave reviews from critics and readers alike for its driving pace and twisty narrative. Today sees the release…
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The Vanishing

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Written by John Connor — Author John Connor became a barrister in 1988 and spent 15 years working for the Crown Prosecution Service in London and West Yorkshire. He was involved in over 30 homicide prosecutions and provided advice to the police in numerous undercover operations….
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Alex

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Pierre Lemaitre’s novel introduces us to Alex Prévost. She appears to be a typical young Parisian woman: single, resourceful, independent. She is fast approaching 30 but she is still so beautiful that men turn after her in the streets. One day, a man follows her,…
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Dog in the Manger

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Written by Mike Resnick –– Ex-cop Eli Paxton is an honest to goodness hero. Fat lot of good it’s done him though. It did get him into the pages of Newsweek and even a biography that he never even saw on the bookshelf. Unfortunately, as a…
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Alex by Pierre Lemaitre

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This may be his first novel translated into English, but Pierre Lemaitre is far from a newcomer to the crime fiction genre. It’s actually the second book in his Verhoeven series following Travail soigné, which won the Cognac Festival’s prize for best new novel in 2006….
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