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NTN: Bitter Water Blues

By RoughJustice

11 November, 2016

Written by Patrick Shawn Bagley — Brooklyn, 2005, is where things begin in Patrick Shawn Bagley’s debut, published by indie outfit 280 Steps. Joey Connolly is working as a hitman for local mob boss Carl Petucci but he can see the writing on the wall. The…

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Cold Blood, Hot Sea by Charlene D'Avanzo

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 June, 2016

This amateur sleuth story, billed as ‘A Mara Tusconi Mystery’ introduces Mara, age 31, whose work at the Maine Oceanographic Institute (MOI) centres on the timely subject of climate change. D’Avanzo deserves credit for taking on the difficult task of making science accessible to a…

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A Time of Torment by John Connolly

By DavidPrestidge

6 April, 2016

John Connolly’s distinctive blend of human villainy and supernatural forces have won him a huge army of admirers since he first came on the scene with Every Dead Thing in 1999. He has attained that enviable status where each new book is a serious event…

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The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

By DeathBecomesHer

30 January, 2015

This book begins with a scenario eerily reminiscent of the classic Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train (written by the excellent Patricia Highsmith). A successful businessman meets a woman in an airport bar and the pair strike up a conversation which continues when they end up on the…

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Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron

By DavidPrestidge

28 December, 2014

It should be autumn in the dense wilderness of the Maine backwoods, but it is unseasonably hot. People are still wearing cut-off shorts and flip-flops, and the insect swarms which should have died away by now are driving everyone mad. Game warden Mike Bowditch is…

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The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

By DavidPrestidge

11 May, 2014

The village of Prosperous, Maine, is aptly named. Everyone is comfortably well-off. Folk in Prosperous look after one another, but they are remarkably tolerant, too – not always a defining characteristic of isolated Maine settlements. Just outside the village is an ancient church, dedicated to…

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Generation Loss

By DavidPrestidge

31 December, 2013

Our writer Crime Fiction Lover laps up Scandinavian crime novels like there’s no tomorrow, so it’s something of a departure to find his top book of 2013 is set in Maine. Photographer Cass Neary heads up to a remote island to interview another photographer who…

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Trespasser by Paul Doiron

By DavidPrestidge

7 August, 2013

When winter slowly turns into spring in Maine, they call it Mud Season. It is both a curse and a blessing. Clothes, cars, sidewalks and driveways are covered in the stuff, but at least summer cannot be too far away. Amid the mud Game Warden…

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NTN: Bitter Water Blues

Cold Blood, Hot Sea by Charlene D'Avanzo

A Time of Torment by John Connolly

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Massacre Pond by Paul Doiron

The Wolf in Winter by John Connolly

Generation Loss

Trespasser by Paul Doiron

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