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Abigale Hall by Lauren A Forry

By DavidPrestidge

24 April, 2016

Written by Lauren A Forry — London, spring 1947. Bombed out houses stand like rotten teeth in an old man’s jaw, and the city is recovering from the harshest winter in memory. Youngsters have returned from the countryside to which they were sent during the War, but some…

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Death in Bayswater by Linda Stratmann

By spriteby

17 April, 2016

The Frances Doughty mysteries are no stranger to Crime Fiction Lover. Back in December 2014, we reviewed An Appetite for Murder, and our radar also picked up the fifth book in the series, The Children of Silence last May. Death in Bayswater finds London’s only female…

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The Vanished by Soren and Lotte Hammer

By crimefictionlover

16 April, 2016

Translated by Martin Aitken — Scandinavian crime fiction has given us some amazing strong, anti-social women as lead characters. Think of Lisbeth Salander, Smilla Jaspersen, Sarah Lund and Saga Noren, for instance. But it’s also has a reputation for quiet old men, usually with health problems. If…

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A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier

By DavidPrestidge

11 April, 2016

It’s a curious thing for an author to make himself a character in his own book, and proves slightly unnerving to start with. However, the fictional version of Ralph Spurrier does not detain us for too long. A book dealer, in the story he buys…

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Strange Tide

By DavidPrestidge

10 April, 2016

Christopher Fowler takes risks. His two detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are improbably ancient. I think they were old in their WWII debut mystery, Full Dark House. He cracks endless jokes based on English popular culture, and if you can’t keep up with his…

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Black Wings Has My Angel

By crimefictionlover

10 April, 2016

This re-issued Elliott Chaze novel offers up a delicious trip into the noir past, and holds you in its grip. Originally published in 1954, the first-person narrator of Black Wings has all the sardonic humour of Raymond Chandler’s Marlowe, but instead of a PI he’s…

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The Poison Artist

By DavidPrestidge

10 April, 2016

Jonathan Moore appreciates the love affair that bloomed in the Golden Age between mystery authors and the dazzling variety of concoctions killers used to despatch their victims. In this remarkable debut novel we meet a San Francisco toxicologist, Dr Caleb Maddox. He has a row…

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Dodgers by Bill Beverly

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 March, 2016

A modern crime classic in the tradition of Richard Price’s Clockers, Dodgers is the story of a youthful soldier in the south Los Angeles drug trade. East, a black 16-year-old, is a yardman for a drug house, which means he runs a team of younger…

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Abigale Hall by Lauren A Forry

Death in Bayswater by Linda Stratmann

The Vanished by Soren and Lotte Hammer

A Coin for the Hangman by Ralph Spurrier

Strange Tide

Black Wings Has My Angel

The Poison Artist

Dodgers by Bill Beverly

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