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The Psychologist's Shadow by Laury A Egan

By Vicki Weisfeld

30 November, 2023

If you’re looking for a complete change of pace in a crime thriller then The Psychologist’s Shadow by Laury A Egan may be it. It has action scenes but, fittingly, most of the story unwinds in the head of psychologist Ellen Haskell. Ellen has closed…

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Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G Giarratano

By RoughJustice

16 February, 2023

Datura Books is a new imprint from Angry Robot that specialises in crime fiction, and its very first title is Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G Giarratano. This novel details the mystery behind the murder of Starla Wells, a New Jersey stripper who…

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The Pine Barrens Stratagem by Ken Harris

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 February, 2022

In Ken Harris’s new thriller, witty and profane private investigator Steve Rockfish tackles a series of long-hidden crimes that powerful forces are determined should stay under wraps. The prologue is a bit over-long, but provides a chilling history lesson. In the early 1940s, the young…

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Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 August, 2021

Authors are often told to make the setting of their novel like another character, and certainly the books that nail the sounds, smells, look and feel of a place add to the realism of a story. This debut crime novel involving two quasi-amateur detectives takes…

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New Jersey Noir: Cape May by William Baer

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 January, 2021

This is the second of William Baer’s novels featuring private investigator Jack Colt of Paterson, New Jersey. Going by the title, you might assume this is part of Akashic Books’ short story series that includes Milwaukee Noir or Amsterdam Noir. In fact, Akashic published a…

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One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

By Vicki Weisfeld

11 November, 2020

In Tara Laskowski’s award-winning suspense novel One Night Gone, two women who have never met and never will meet, women of different ages with seemingly nothing in common, have unexpected and consequential connections after all. At the end of the summer of 1986, a teenager…

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The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben

By DeathBecomesHer

30 March, 2020

In a world where crime novel reading can sometimes feel a little samey, here’s an author you can always rely upon to come up with something that bit different. So meet Wilde, the boy from the woods of the title. He’s an attractive loner who…

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The Dead Don't Sleep

By Vicki Weisfeld

21 January, 2020

Written by Steven Max Russo — It’s taken five decades for the long arm of retribution to reach halfway around the world and tap the shoulder of Frank Thompson in this new crime thriller by Steven Max Russo. Back in the late 1960s, when Frank…

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The Psychologist's Shadow by Laury A Egan

Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G Giarratano

The Pine Barrens Stratagem by Ken Harris

Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza

New Jersey Noir: Cape May by William Baer

One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski

The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben

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