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Juliet & Romeo

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Written by David Hewson — Violent gangs roaming city streets looking for trouble. Murder. Illicit love. Poison. Suicide. And what amounts to the sale of a human being. It’s hard to argue that Shakespeare wasn’t a crime writer, and these elements come to the fore…
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We Were the Salt of the Sea

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French-Canadian author Roxanne Bouchard’s fifth novel is also her first to be translated into English thanks to Orenda Books. It’s set in Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, where inhabitants live by, and make their living from, the sea. Two new arrivals into the insular community are about…
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Greeks Bearing Gifts

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When British author Philip Kerr died suddenly earlier this year the world lost a giant of crime fiction. Kerr was not only prolific but his writing was consistently good, highlighted by the brilliant series of novels featuring ex-Berlin cop turned private detective Bernie Gunther. Greeks…
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Eight Million Ways to Die

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Lawrence Block’s 1982 novel is rendered in a dark and dangerous style by John K Snyder III as he recreates the story in graphic novel form. Central to the piece is Block’s iconic private detective, Matt Scudder, who wrestles with his alcohol addiction while trying…
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Smoke and Ashes

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Abir Mukherjee’s third mystery featuring Captain Sam Wyndham, an ex-Scotland Yard detective policeman in 1920s colonial Calcutta, sees him caught in the crossfire of the campaign for Indian independence from the British. Wyndham’s addiction reaches a critical stage, but it is a visit to an opium…
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Resume Speed and Other Stories

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Written by Lawrence Block — This entertaining collection of short crime fiction combines old and new short stories, plus one novella by the award-winning and amazingly prolific American author Lawrence Block. Never before appearing in collections, the seven stories have been plucked from an 56-year…
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Smoking Kills

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Written by Antoine Laurain, translated by Louise Rogers-Lalaurie — The title of this book is marketing genius, with a wink in the direction of every packet of cigarettes and pouch of tobacco in the EU. Although we all know the evil weed is a killer,…
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