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The Butterfly House by Teresa Solana

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Translated by Peter Bush — Teresa Solana’s The Butterfly House is an idiosyncratic crime novel in which murder, family complications, police politics and the economic woes of Barcelona become increasingly entangled. It follows Black Storms as the second instalment in Solana’s series featuring Deputy Inspector…
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The Vanishing Room by Andrew Lowe

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With British detective fiction so congested, crafting a compelling new detective, sidekick and ensemble seems a daunting prospect. Andrew Lowe managed this in fine style with the first entry in the Lennox and Blackwood series, The Whispering Bones, which introduced us to DCI Oswald Lennox…
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Seeing Red by Damien Boyd

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Going back to Poe’s C Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, procedural mysteries have an illustrious history in crime fiction. Damien Boyd’s new Seeing Red fits that popular model quite neatly. This is his 16th book in the DI Nick Dixon Crime series, and…
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