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Hustle by Tom Pitts

By RoughJustice

15 April, 2014

Donny and Big Rich are male prostitutes in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Their lives revolve around getting high. Heroin is what they are addicted to, but if they can’t get that then crack or meth is better than nothing. It means never looking beyond the…

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Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

By crimefictionlover

11 April, 2014

What would you do if you were bagman for a New Orleans kingpin and you found out you had lung cancer. And what if your boss started sleeping with your girl? He then sends you on a mission to shake down some loser across town,…

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Mr Campion's Farewell by Margery Allingham

By spriteby

10 April, 2014

Written by Margery Allingham, completed by Mike Ripley — When Margery Allingham died in 1966, she had published 18 novels featuring her Golden Age private detective Albert Campion. She left behind several unfinished manuscripts, and her husband Philip ‘Pip’ Youngman Carter – who collaborated with…

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Dandy Gilver & A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson

By spriteby

8 April, 2014

The Dandy Gilver series first entered the historical crime arena back in July 2005 with After the Armistice. The book was set in Perthshire shortly after World War I as Britain moved into the 1920s and looked back on the devastation of the War. It…

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Death Can't Take a Joke by Anya Lipska

By DavidPrestidge

6 April, 2014

Act I, Scene 1 – Canary Wharf, a prime business district which has been redeveloped from the decaying former docklands of East London. A young policewoman is trying to enjoy an over-priced latte. There is a strange birdlike flurry of movement in her peripheral vision,…

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Beams Falling by PM Newton

By nagaisayonara

2 April, 2014

Beams Falling easily could be labeled a police procedural. It’s an easy mistake to make considering the author spent 13 years in the New South Wales police force, working Drug Enforcement, Sexual Assault and Major Crime in and around Sydney. But this is not a…

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Talus and the Frozen King by Graham Edwards

By RoughJustice

30 March, 2014

Now here’s a book that provides us with a neat spin on historical crime fiction – by setting his novel in pre-history. The Neolithic era to be precise – when the first human communities formed, early farming began and people started making the first pottery….

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Sorrow Bound by David Mark

By DeathBecomesHer

29 March, 2014

There are books that make you want to race to the finish. And occasionally they leave you feeling a bit deflated and cheated, because that killer ending somehow falls flat. Sorrow Bound isn’t like that. Instead, I found myself slowing, trying to make the pleasure…

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Hustle by Tom Pitts

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

Mr Campion's Farewell by Margery Allingham

Dandy Gilver & A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson

Death Can't Take a Joke by Anya Lipska

Beams Falling by PM Newton

Talus and the Frozen King by Graham Edwards

Sorrow Bound by David Mark

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