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Bosch gets the thumbs-up on Amazon

By DeathBecomesHer

5 April, 2016

Hot on the heels of the latest outing for Bosch on the box, tablet, laptop or wherever you do your streaming, Amazon has announced a third series based on the books by Michael Connelly. Currently available on Amazon Video, series two takes much of its inspiration from the…

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Dodgers by Bill Beverly

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 March, 2016

A modern crime classic in the tradition of Richard Price’s Clockers, Dodgers is the story of a youthful soldier in the south Los Angeles drug trade. East, a black 16-year-old, is a yardman for a drug house, which means he runs a team of younger…

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Fever City by Tim Baker

By Keith Nixon

16 January, 2016

A buzz has been building about this book, and it started long before its release, when the early copies went out to – how shall we put it? – the opinion formers of the crime fiction world. We listed Fever City as one of our…

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The Promise by Robert Crais

By DeathBecomesHer

6 January, 2016

Robert Crais’ Suspect was one of our top books of 2013, and I included it among my top five books of that year. The moving story of how Maggie, an LAPD working dog and her handler Scott James work together to rebuild their lives and…

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Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry

By RoughJustice

1 January, 2016

Thomas Perry is an American thriller writer famous for his 1982 debut, The Butcher’s Boy, which we wrote about here in our feature on influential first novels. He also wrote the Jane Whitefield series about a Native American guide who helps the desperate disappear, and has…

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The Crossing by Michael Connelly audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 December, 2015

Written by Michael Connelly, narrated by Titus Welliver — What a pleasure it is to enter the Los Angeles airspace of Harry Bosch and his half-brother Mickey Haller. Teaming up his two protagonists from the Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series was a brilliant move by…

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A Better Goodbye

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 December, 2015

Written by John Schulian — If you’ve always wondered what goes on in those sketchy massage parlours, this expertly written and well paced debut thriller is your chance to find out. Set in Los Angeles on the bitter fringes of the entertainment industry and reeking of fake…

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NTN: Tim Baker interviewed

By Keith Nixon

24 November, 2015

Tim Baker’s debut novel, Fever City, is due to be published by Faber & Faber in January 2016 but it’s already generating quite a buzz. Though it deals with the Kennedy assassination – widely treated in crime fiction by the likes of James Ellroy, Don…

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Bosch gets the thumbs-up on Amazon

Dodgers by Bill Beverly

Fever City by Tim Baker

The Promise by Robert Crais

Forty Thieves by Thomas Perry

The Crossing by Michael Connelly audiobook

A Better Goodbye

NTN: Tim Baker interviewed

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