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NTN: The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin

By DavidPrestidge

19 November, 2014

Captain Gregor Reinhardt won the Iron Cross while serving in the trenches with the German army in World War I. After a spell between the wars where he became one of the best detectives in Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he has reluctantly accepted a commission in the…

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NTN: The Cost of Doing Business by Jonathan Ashley

By nagaisayonara

14 November, 2014

As a reader of crime fiction, sometimes I get a little concerned that the novels I love glorify the criminal life, that they may be somehow encouraging me to seek a life of gun, gangs and drugs. Then a novel like The Cost of Doing…

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NTN: Murder on the Second Tee by Ian Simpson

By spriteby

12 November, 2014

Ian Simpson was a criminal defence barrister at the Scottish bar and later became a judge, rising as to the High Court. He made his literary debut back in 2008 with Murder on Page One, which was short listed for the Debut Dagger by the…

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The Lazarus Prophecy by FG Cottam

By spriteby

4 November, 2014

British writer FG Cottam made his debut back in 2007 with his highly successful paranormal thriller, The House of Lost Souls. This novel has subsequently been published in 15 languages, and won him the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award, not to mention being…

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NTN: Toxic by Jackie McLean

By DeathBecomesHer

4 November, 2014

Scottish author Jackie McLean has certainly jumped in at the deep end for her debut novel. Toxic is inspired by the Bhopal disaster, the world’s biggest industrial accident, where thousands of people were killed in one night. The book opens with a scene set in…

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Memento Mori by Keith McCarthy

By DavidPrestidge

3 November, 2014

Picture an old man alone except for his daughter, living in an secluded and abandoned infirmary. He hears voices. Not just ordinary voices, but the voices of the three ancient Muses – Mese, Nete and Hypate, hot on the line from Delphi – and their…

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NTN: Riven by Anne Randall

By RoughJustice

3 November, 2014

Riven is the assured debut of Glaswegian writer AJ McCreanor and the promising beginning of a new procedural series set in her home town. The novel begins with the gruesome discovery of a horribly brutalised corpse by two young lads, just out of school, attempting…

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Mask of the Verdoy by Phil Lecomber

By DavidPrestidge

28 October, 2014

George Harley is a decorated veteran of World War I who worked for British intelligence post 1918. Now he is scratching out a living as a private investigator in 1930s London, steering a hazardous course between the criminal underworld and the Metropolitan Police, neither of…

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NTN: The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin

NTN: The Cost of Doing Business by Jonathan Ashley

NTN: Murder on the Second Tee by Ian Simpson

The Lazarus Prophecy by FG Cottam

NTN: Toxic by Jackie McLean

Memento Mori by Keith McCarthy

NTN: Riven by Anne Randall

Mask of the Verdoy by Phil Lecomber

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