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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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The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel

By RoughJustice

10 May, 2016

The Vinyl Detective isn’t actually a real detective. He’s just a young, single Londoner whose name is never revealed. A jazz fanatic, he makes his living digging through the crates at record fairs and in charity shops looking for rare vinyl being sold cheap. When…

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The Scrivener by Robin Blake

By spriteby

9 May, 2016

Having worked as a teacher for many years, Robin Blake became a full-time writer in 1986, publishing works of fiction and non-fiction. Most notably, he is an art historian who has written about Anthony Van Dyck and George Stubbs. However, in the 1990s, Blake made…

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A Tapping at My Door by David Jackson audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 May, 2016

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble — The early chapters of this police procedural are tremendously intriguing. A woman copper in Liverpool is murdered in her back garden, with a dead raven splayed over her face. Only when the crime scene investigators remove the bird do they…

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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

The Vinyl Detective by Andrew Cartmel

The Scrivener by Robin Blake

A Tapping at My Door by David Jackson audiobook

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French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

French crime show Everybody Lies comes to Channel 4

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