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Interview: Bill Beverly

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When American author Bill Beverly’s debut novel Dodgers came out last year, straight away it received a five-star review here on Crime Fiction Lover. It went on to win the Gold Dagger at the 2016 CWA awards. Telling the story of a gang of black youths…
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Lola

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Written by Melissa Scrivner Love — Lola, the energetic protagonist of this Los Angeles-based crime thriller, is an eminently likeable young woman, flirting with death at the hands of rival drug operatives and flouting the legal establishment. She lives with Garcia, the supposed leader of the Crenshaw…
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

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Written by Michael Connelly — “If you’re not a cop, you’re little people,” is a quotation that appears more than once in this book. And Harry Bosch isn’t a cop any more, not really. After a long-winded lawsuit against the LAPD from which Bosch received a…
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The Caller

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Written by Chris Carter — FaceTime and Skype are great inventions, aren’t they? You can chat face to face with somebody who is the other side of the world with just a couple of taps on your tablet. Or, you could call someone and then…
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The Collection

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Written by Lance Charnes — In this first-person caper, set in the present day, narrator Matt Friedrich encounters a whole clockwork factory ticking toward deadlines, with the emphasis on ‘dead’. If he doesn’t find certain stolen art, the women in his life will be dead at…
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Fever City

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Tim Baker brings us a high voltage tale of kidnapping, the plot to murder JFK, and dark family secrets. His title can point us in one direction only, and it’s everyone’s favourite crime fiction location – The City of Angels. Baker flits back and forward between…
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