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First look: Phil Rickman's new mini-novel

By DavidPrestidge

3 October, 2015

It’s a rare occasion when the postman delivers a book that is as physically rewarding as you hope the contents will be. This little gem arrived today in a whopping great big padded envelope, courtesy of Corvus books. Social media is currently buzzing with the downright…

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Tennison by Lynda La Plante

By DavidPrestidge

23 September, 2015

Jane Tennison, a young policewoman fresh out of Hendon Training College, makes the daily journey from her parents’ comfortable flat in Maida Vale to Hackney. It’s a grim place and resolutely working class. Being a woman police constable in 1972 – the gender distinction was…

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The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

By DavidPrestidge

20 September, 2015

One look at the cover of this book, and you know that Chastity has been well and truly corrupted. Frank Westworth’s second Killing Sisters noir novel offers guns, girls, guitars and gruesome violence according to one of the blurbs. JJ Stoner is, among other things,…

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Unforgiving

By DavidPrestidge

18 September, 2015

Written by Nick Oldham — Detective Superintendent Henry Christie returns in another episode of his career fighting outlaws on England’s wild North-West frontier in Lancashire, including Blackpool, Preston and the surrounding areas. Unforgiving is a police procedural, but if that bestows any sense of dryness,…

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The Drowning Ground by James Marrison

By Keith Nixon

15 September, 2015

When the body of a local farmer is found on the peak of a hill with a pitchfork rammed through his neck Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes is called in. The deceased is Frank Hurst and well known to Downes. Ten years previously Downes investigated…

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With Our Blessing by Jo Spain

By DeathBecomesHer

13 September, 2015

Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, and the abuse that occurred inside them, has been well documented over recent years. Now it serves the background for the debut novel by journalist Jo Spain. It is a subject close to the author’s heart as her father was born in…

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Preserve the Dead by Brian McGilloway

By Keith Nixon

9 September, 2015

Detective Sergeant Lucy Black of the Derry police force leads a full and complex life. Her father is suffering the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and has been badly beaten by another inmate at the secure unit he’s currently in. But before she can complain…

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Shutter Man by Richard Montanari

By DavidPrestidge

4 September, 2015

When the Rousseau family are found dead in their suburban Philadelphia home – and Mrs Rousseau is minus her face – homicide cop Kevin Byrne, no stranger to horror, is appalled. There are no obvious clues, no prints, no forensics, and no motive. Only when…

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First look: Phil Rickman's new mini-novel

Tennison by Lynda La Plante

The Corruption of Chastity by Frank Westworth

Unforgiving

The Drowning Ground by James Marrison

With Our Blessing by Jo Spain

Preserve the Dead by Brian McGilloway

Shutter Man by Richard Montanari

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