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Hunted by Paul Finch

24 May, 2015

A former copper, journalist and screenwriter for The Bill, Paul Finch has had Kindles and Kobos buzzing with his DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg series. Stalkers, the first Heck book, boasts over 180,000 ebook sales so far. The second, Sacrifice, set records for pre-orders. Hunted is the fifth…

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And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley

By DavidPrestidge

23 May, 2015

New York PI Leonid Trotter McGill has a chaotic personal life. His wife is lying in a care home, broken and depressed as a result of years of mutual betrayal and infidelity. His brother is serving a life term in an Indiania prison. His son…

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The Slaughterman by Tony Parsons

By DavidPrestidge

18 May, 2015

London copper Max Wolfe first appeared last year in The Murder Bag. Now he returns to track a sadistic killer who has butchered four members of a wealthy family, and kidnapped their youngest child. The family thought themselves secure in their upmarket gated estate, but their…

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No Doves by Andy Boot

By Raven

12 May, 2015

Set in 1991, No Doves is a violent and unsettling read from the outset. Based in the East End of London, in the grip of the urban regeneration of the Docklands area, the book opens with the discovery of a corpse sans hands floating in…

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Hold the Dark by William Giraldi audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 May, 2015

Narrated by Richard Ferrone — The essentials of William Giraldi’s icy thriller were covered in our review of the book, which you’ll find here. In brief, the story centers around a case in which two, then three, children are stolen by wolves from a small village…

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Mañana by William Hjortsberg

By RoughJustice

5 May, 2015

Sometime between the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis and the murder of Meredith Hunter by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, the hippy dream died. Free love, civil rights, and gender equality all took a beating and the naïve…

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Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson

By DavidPrestidge

4 May, 2015

We first met Inspector Tom Harper in Gods of Gold. Now he returns, newly married, but still trying to keep the peace in a wintry and grimy Leeds, the industrial city in the north of England. It is Christmas 1890, and a young Jewish man…

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The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

By DavidPrestidge

1 May, 2015

Debut author Cal Moriarty was discovered after taking a course at the Faber Academy, and the publisher now has a fine writer on its hands who can weave a tale full of surprises and twists. Set in the early 1980s, the story begins when Bobbi Lomax is…

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Hunted by Paul Finch

And Sometimes I Wonder About You by Walter Mosley

The Slaughterman by Tony Parsons

No Doves by Andy Boot

Hold the Dark by William Giraldi audiobook

Mañana by William Hjortsberg

Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

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