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A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

12 June, 2016

Calcutta, 1919, and the city is full of rising men. There are the colonials making fortunes in commodities like rubber and jute, or grafting in the administration in ways they never could back in the UK. There are cloth merchants and bankers. There are the…

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My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry

By DavidPrestidge

10 June, 2016

Two people. One not yet in her teens. Another, recently married, trying to succeed at being both a wife and a lawyer. Carla Cavoletti is a solitary little girl, living alone with her mother in their London flat, and disliked at school for her Italian…

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Redemption Road

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 May, 2016

Written by John Hart, narrated by Scott Shepherd — You’d never guess this crime thriller is award-winning author John Hart’s first novel with a female protagonist. He writes from her point of view compellingly and expertly slips himself into her shoes where gender perspective makes…

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Last Light by CJ Lyons

By DeathBecomesHer

24 May, 2016

Some of my favourite novels are set in small town America. Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher tale, Make Me, has most of the action taking place in a tight knit community and that sense of claustrophobia plays a huge part in marking the book so gripping….

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The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton

By RoughJustice

15 May, 2016

Shall we start with the first life of Nick Mason? He was born in Canaryville, an Irish suburb of Chicago. He grew up in difficult circumstances, without a father, and gravitated to crime. From stealing cars he graduated to robbing dealers and then to armed…

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The Birdwatcher by William Shaw

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 May, 2016

The first lines of this contemporary police procedural set up the defining characteristics of the protagonist: “There were two reasons why William South did not want to be on the murder team. “The first was that it was October. The migrating birds had begun arriving…

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Psycho: Sanitarium by Chet Williamson

By RoughJustice

13 May, 2016

Robert Bloch (1917-1994) left a considerable body of work in the fields of crime, horror, and science fiction, but is best remembered for his psychological horror, Psycho (1959). Its protagonist, Norman Bates, was immortalised in Alfred Hitchcock’s film the following year. There were sequels to…

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The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

By Keith Nixon

12 May, 2016

Eddie Flynn is a con man, or he used to be. These days he operates on the right side of the law as a small time New York lawyer skirting the periphery of bankruptcy. So when the FBI turn up at his door offering a…

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A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry

Redemption Road

Last Light by CJ Lyons

The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton

The Birdwatcher by William Shaw

Psycho: Sanitarium by Chet Williamson

The Plea by Steve Cavanagh

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