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The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes by Michael Kurland

By RoughJustice

23 February, 2016

This author is perhaps best known for his series of comic historical thrillers featuring that infamous criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. You can read our review of the most recent book in that series, Who Thinks Evil, here. Recently, Titan Books republished another of his historical…

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Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott

By DeathBecomesHer

17 February, 2016

Lies. Even a teeny weeny white one can snowball into something of epic proportions if you’re not careful. But if everyone told the truth, where would crime fiction readers be? Or defence solicitors for that matter? Maggie Taylor is one of the latter, newly arrived…

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The Darkest Secret by Alex Harwood

By DeathBecomesHer

15 January, 2016

Alex Marwood’s latest domestic noir novel is one of those ones where you’ll definitely feel like screaming, “He’s behind you!” like an overexcited child at a pantomime. There were also times when I wanted to grab a character by the arm and ask, “Can’t you…

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Interview: Conrad Williams

By RoughJustice

4 November, 2015

Hailing from Warrington, in the North West of England, Conrad Williams has made a name for himself in the areas of horror and dark fantasy. While his latest novel retains the dark, instead of fantasy Dust and Desire is the author’s first stab at detective…

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The Drowning Ground by James Marrison

By Keith Nixon

15 September, 2015

When the body of a local farmer is found on the peak of a hill with a pitchfork rammed through his neck Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes is called in. The deceased is Frank Hurst and well known to Downes. Ten years previously Downes investigated…

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CIS: A classic revisited - The Long-Legged Fly

By Zachary Colbert

11 September, 2015

This spartan but stylish New Orleans noir was James Sallis’s debut novel and the first book in his Lew Griffin series. The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to the grizzled private detective through an exchange that’s the epitome of crime noir – beautiful and brutal in…

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The Lost Child by Ann Troup

By nagaisayonara

8 September, 2015

Despite the title, the true nature of the crime in this captivating debut novel never becomes apparent until the very end. There are some people who will do anything to keep the truth from coming out, and they want Mandy Miller – a child who…

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A Killing Moon by Steven Dunne

By Keith Nixon

17 July, 2015

It’s the end of term, Christmas is coming. Derby University student Caitlin Kinnear heads out for heavy night on the town before heading back to Ireland the next day for the break. But after leaving her friend in the bar she’d been propping up Caitlin…

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The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes by Michael Kurland

Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott

The Darkest Secret by Alex Harwood

Interview: Conrad Williams

The Drowning Ground by James Marrison

CIS: A classic revisited - The Long-Legged Fly

The Lost Child by Ann Troup

A Killing Moon by Steven Dunne

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