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Six Years

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Written by Harlan Coben — Let’s face it, Harlan Coben has done just about everything an American crime author can do. His Myron Bolitar novels, in which an ex-basketball player solves crimes, won the author Edgar, Anthony and Shamus awards in the 1990s. Out of…
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The Dying Hours

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Written by Mark Billingham — Inspector Tom Thorne is a grizzled veteran of a dozen hardcore murder investigations, with both Lazybones (2004) and Death Message (2009) winning that top UK accolade, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. After a year away…
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Voodoo Eyes

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Written by Nick Stone — PI Max Mingus has settled into his routine of investigating cheating spouses when what would usually be a fairly standard case turns decidedly not-so-standard. However, that case takes a swift back seat when Max gets a call from his old…
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Mayhem

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Written by Sarah Pinborough — As a setting Victorian London seems to be a mainstay in crime fiction. It will always of course be associated with that most famous of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, but there is also Sexton Blake, Dickens’ Bleak House, and The Moonstone…
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The Cold Nowhere

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Written by Brian Freeman — In a rickety frame house, at the end of a track, hidden deep in the Minnesota woods, a six-year-old cowers under the porch. Above her, behind her, all around her, she can hear the screams of a woman being butchered….
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Penance

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Written by Dan O’Shea — Penance is a big, ambitious, sprawling novel set in Chicago 1971, and the present day. It’s so big, in fact, that it begins with a character listing – and let me tell you, I was grateful for that. It’s also…
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Love Story, With Murders

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Last year our contributor David Prestidge raved about Harry Bingham’s Talking to the Dead and, in fact, it was his favourite crime read of 2012. Well, Bingham is back and his new book has a great title – Love Story, With Murder. The lead detective…
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