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Good Samaritans

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Will Carver makes his return to the crime fiction shelves with this audacious contemporary noir novel featuring four obsessive characters riding a veritable suburban rollercoaster of death by ennui. Ant works for The Samaritans charity and he’s a bit OCD. Haley has suicidally low self-esteem….
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Forger's Revenge

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Written by Leah Devlin — Ella Winston is just out of prison, banged up for something she did… and also for something she didn’t do. The former art forger is on the straight and narrow now, but she’s also on the hunt for evidence that’ll…
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The Girl Without Skin

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Written by Mads Peder Nordbo, translated by Charlotte Barslund — Danish writer Mads Peder Nordbo’s Nordic thriller begins with journalist Matthew Cave returning to Greenland, the country of his birth, after a tragedy in Denmark claimed his wife and unborn child. There are few diversions for the…
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Good Samaritans

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Written by Will Carver — Will Carver, where have you been hiding? You dazzled, beguiled and entrapped us with books like Girl 4, The Two and Dead Set. Your detective January David was going places, we thought, despite everything you put him through. Then, in…
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Kingdom of the Blind

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Written by Louise Penny — In a rather moving afterword to the book, Louise Penny admits that she thought she was done with her beloved creation, Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté du Québec. The author says that for a long time after her…
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Mrs Cox

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Written by Jan Moore, narrated by Jilly Bond — It’s January 1608. London is dark most of the time, and the citizens are restless. Food shortages put residents of the poorer neighborhoods in increasing peril, though the extent of the grain shortage is as yet…
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Last Lullaby

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Written by Carol Wyer — The pretty pastel shades of the cover of this book belie what lurks inside. DI Natalie Ward is back, and about to tackle her most gruesome case yet. We met Ward earlier this year in The Birthday. She’s a committed…
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The Whisperer

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Written by Karin Fossum — You are going to die. It’s a fact. It’s also a frightening statement and one that can and should be taken as a threat when it’s written on a note that’s been shoved into your mailbox. Just such a note…
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