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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

By DeathBecomesHer

5 June, 2024

The world of crime fiction is a broad church, featuring everything from snooping grannies in sleepy rural hamlets to blood spattered serial killers, and everything in between. At the darkest end of that spectrum comes Chris Carter, whose Robert Hunter series is definitely not for…

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Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

By Paul Burke

29 May, 2024

The second Pacific Coast Highway mystery sees the welcome return of proto-detective Adam Zantz. His job as driver on the taxi app Lyft got him into a heap of trouble in The Last Songbird, when he needed to prove his innocence of the murder of…

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Far Out by Khaled Talib

By Dave Bradley

9 January, 2024

There’s a grand tradition of Saturday afternoon action TV. The 1970s and 80s treated us to high-concept episodic crime capers in sun-kissed locations, all car chases and shout-outs, every mystery solved with a seemingly endless supply of ammunition and helicopters. The Fall Guy. Magnum PI….

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Shadow Dance by Martin Ott

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 December, 2023

Like gritty noir? If so then indie crime author Martin Ott’s new thriller may be right up your alley. Buddy Rivet has ended several tours in Afghanistan, somewhat – no, a great deal – worse for wear. He just wants to get home to his…

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Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly

By DeathBecomesHer

16 November, 2023

Two men, connected by blood but at very different stages of life, are the unbroken thread that runs through Michael Connelly’s latest novel, Resurrection Walk. We’re talking half-brothers Hieronymus ‘Harry’ Bosch and Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, of course. Fans of this author’s books (or…

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Big Island, LA by Boston Teran

By RoughJustice

12 October, 2023

Big Island, LA connects the dots between a heist gone wrong at a police shooting range and corporate greed and political corruption, leaving a former combat marine and an agoraphobic crime reporter to sort out the mystery. It’s a new crime novel from Boston Teran…

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To Die For by Lisa Gray

By Sharon Richardson

15 August, 2023

Glaswegian author Lisa Gray is known for her page-turning thrillers set in the United States. Her debut novel, Thin Air, was a bestseller. She used this book to introduce the character of Jessica Shaw, a PI who is unaware of her own past. After a…

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Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman

By Dave Bradley

28 April, 2023

It feels like Kellerman crime novels come as regularly as the tides on Venice Beach. Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD lieutenant Milo Sturgis have been investigating deaths in the LA suburbs since the award-winning When The Bough Breaks, and now here is Unnatural History, the…

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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

Cinnamon Girl by Daniel Weizmann

Far Out by Khaled Talib

Shadow Dance by Martin Ott

Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly

Big Island, LA by Boston Teran

To Die For by Lisa Gray

Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman

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