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Light in a Dark House by Jan Costin Wagner

By Jeremy Megraw

4 October, 2013

Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called in to investigate the murder of a woman in a hospital bed. Two strange aspects of the killing immediately arrest our attention. The victim is an unidentified woman who had been in a coma as the result of an…

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Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton

By RoughJustice

2 October, 2013

Steve Hamilton returns again to the frozen landscape of Paradise, Michigan, for his eighth novel featuring sometime PI Alex McKnight. McKnight used to be a police officer working the mean streets of Detroit, but he left after getting injured in the line of duty. He…

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Next to Die by Neil White

By DeathBecomesHer

24 September, 2013

Lawyer by day, crime fiction writer by night, author Neil White almost sounds like a character from a crime fiction novel himself. But he combines the two very well, because White’s legal thrillers certainly have a real ring of authenticity, if Next to Die is…

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CIS: Shroud for a Nightingale revisited

By MarinaSofia

22 September, 2013

Written by PD James — Has it really been 42 years since this PD James novel came out, one of her best-known and most-loved works? Although it was her fourth book featuring poet and police detective Adam Dalgliesh, it was the first, and certainly not…

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A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Piñeiro

By MarinaSofia

14 September, 2013

Translated by Miranda France — Is it possible to write a compelling book about a real crack in a concrete wall? This is exactly what Argentinian writer Claudia Piñeiro sets out to do in this unusual crime novel. Of course, as we progress through this…

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CIS: Fatality in Fleet Street by Christopher St John Sprigg

By DavidPrestidge

14 September, 2013

Fatality in Fleet Street was first published in 1933, but is set several years later, on the eve of what history tells us was World War II. The supreme irony is that St John Sprigg could have predicted neither this nor his own untimely death…

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The Doll's House by Louise Phillips

By DeathBecomesHer

11 September, 2013

Perhaps I’m just lucky, but it’s rare that I find a book that I can’t get into. So I was perplexed when I was halfway through The Doll’s House and still struggling to connect with it. Something else I rarely do is read my previous…

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CIS: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie

By spriteby

5 September, 2013

Last year, we began Classics in September and it’s fair to say we included plenty of hardboiled and noir material from the 1940s and 50s. Chandler, Jim Thompson, Ross Macdonald and James M Cain all featured alongside the Top Five Women of Noir. Maybe we…

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Light in a Dark House by Jan Costin Wagner

Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton

Next to Die by Neil White

CIS: Shroud for a Nightingale revisited

A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Piñeiro

CIS: Fatality in Fleet Street by Christopher St John Sprigg

The Doll's House by Louise Phillips

CIS: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie

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