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Lady of the Shades

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Written by Darren Shan — You’ve got to take your hat off to Darren Shan. His horror/fantasy books for teens are getting boys to read books, even in this age of Xbox, Facebook and Lethal Bizzle. Lady of the Shades, however, is a crime story…
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Baptism

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Written by Max Kinnings — In the bathroom of an evangelical Christian commune in the Welsh hills, an elderly monk is found stabbed to death. Three of the younger members – an ex-soldier, and a brother and sister traumatised as children by a savage murder-suicide…
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The Girl in Berlin

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It’s summer 1951 and London is feeling the downbeat mood of austerity. Jack McGovern is a detective with Special Branch. High level British diplomats have defected to the Russians and he’s told to investigate Colin Harris, a British communist who has recently returned from East…
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The Two

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Detective January David is struggling to move on from the events of Girl 4, Carver‘s last book. Separated from his wife, he is drinking copiously and immersing himself in his mother’s journals, trying to find more clues about his sister’s disappearance. When bodies start turning…
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The Gilded Edge

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Written by Danny Miller — Danny Miller’s 2011 debut, Kiss Me Quick, was a well-observed and thoroughly engaging period piece lifting the lid on the dark side of 1960s Brighton, with its mods and rockers tearing up the beach, porn barons, mafiosi and corrupt police….
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Interview: Stav Sherez

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Stav Sherez is the author of three subtle and complex crime novels. His latest, A Dark Redemption, explores the repercussions of warfare back in their homeland for London’s Ugandan disapora. It’s an intense read, and this is brought about by Sherez’s highly accomplished prose, which…
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