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The Cook by Ajay Chowdhury

By DeathBecomesHer

10 May, 2022

It is just a year since we met Kamil Rahman, once an up-and-coming detective in the Kolkata police force, more recently a lowly waiter in an Indian restaurant in Brick Lane, London, in the award-winning debut The Waiter. Now Kamil is back – and he’s…

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Target Zero by Anthony Riches

By Paul Burke

5 May, 2022

Best known for his Roman epics, Anthony Riches has set aside sword and sandals for a contemporary high-octane series. The Protector novels feature lone wolf Mickey Bale and Target Zero is his second full-throttle outing after last year’s Nemesis. The action flits between London and…

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Life Sentence by AK Turner

By DeathBecomesHer

3 May, 2022

Cassie Raven is a great name for a protagonist, isn’t it? She sounds like something out of the Twilight books. But no, this Cassie is right at home in the crime fiction genre – although she’s not your usual, run of the mill character, far…

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Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

By Paul Burke

26 April, 2022

Unlucky for some, 13 could be a good number for therecently married writing duo of Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter as they publish their 13th novel together. Say Her Name is an absorbing psychological thriller with a bit of a family history angle to…

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Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

By Erin Britton

14 April, 2022

Death of a Bookseller, the 100th title to be published in the British Library’s sublime Crime Classics series, marks a welcome return to print for Bernard J Farmer. As Martin Edwards notes in his informative introduction to this new edition, copies of the previously long…

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Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

By DeathBecomesHer

15 March, 2022

Sarah Vaughan has been on the Crime Fiction Lover radar before, her intelligently written, precisely plotted thrillers making reviewers sit up and pay attention. Back in 2018 we took a look at Anatomy of a Scandal, part psychological thriller, part courtroom drama, with an MP…

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A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge

By Paul Burke

16 February, 2022

The man with no name returns to the London’s streets after 10 years away and bodies start dropping here in Amen Alonge’s debut novel, A Good Day to Die. This action laden thriller is populated with fascinating characters and the best of them is the…

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The Interview by CM Ewan

By crimefictionlover

15 February, 2022

Job interviews are a nightmare, aren’t they? The last one I attended started off just fine, even though it was scheduled for 5pm on a Friday. Everything was going OK but then the recruitment expert asking the questions started to get very passive-aggressive with his…

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The Cook by Ajay Chowdhury

Target Zero by Anthony Riches

Life Sentence by AK Turner

Say Her Name by Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer

A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge

The Interview by CM Ewan

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