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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 DavidPrestidge

7 August, 2013

Written by Paul Doiron — 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….

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Generation Loss

By DavidPrestidge

31 July, 2013

Set on a wintry island off the coast of Maine, this book introduces us to a physically and mentally scarred bisexual photographer, Cassandra Neary, who travels to the island to write a piece for a pop culture magazine. She encounters missing teenagers, pets killed by…

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Interview: Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

29 June, 2013

A lapsed Catholic whose father was a New York State judge for 40 years, and whose mother read crime voraciously, Elizabeth Hand had her first novel published at 33. Her many successful forays into contemporary dark fantasy were followed in 2008 by her first crime…

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Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand

By crimefictionlover

16 June, 2013

First published in 2008 in the United States, Generation Loss is appearing for the first time in the UK thanks to Constable & Robinson on 20 June. It’s the debut crime novel of Elizabeth Hand, who has already made her name writing horror, and is…

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