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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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Calculated in Death Review

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Written by JD Robb — The first book published in JD Robb’s In Death series was Naked in Death, published back in 1995. Since then the author – who also writes under the name Nora Robberts – has released two hardcover In Death books per…
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Steps to Heaven

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Written by Wendy Cartmel — A soldier sharpens his knife on a whetstone. He says a silent prayer to his God. And then he commits an act of appalling savagery. But this is not Afghanistan, or Iraq. It is the garrison town of Aldershot. Sergeant…
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Whiskey Beach

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Written by Nora Roberts — For many years, Nora Roberts has been my guilty pleasure and I’ve read her romances with relish. She also writes science fiction and crime crossover books under the pseudonym of JD Robb, but they hold no appeal for me, and…
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Snow White Must Die

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Written by Nele Neuhaus — There is a wonderful Cinderella story behind this book, or rather its author. Only seven years ago, German writer Nele Neuhaus was a self-published debut author timidly cold-calling local bookstores in her native Germany. Since then, however, she has proved that…
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What You See in the Dark

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Written by Manuel Munoz — What You See in the Dark contrasts two murders. One is the on-screen killing of Marion Crane, as played by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film, Psycho. The other is that of Teresa Garza, a rather plain young lady…
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Untold Damage

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Written by Robert K Lewis — Waking up with the needle still in his arm is a new one for ex-cop Mark Mallen, and a new low. He’s spent the past four years of his life as a heroin junkie, a descent that began during undercover…
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