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Night Watch

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Written by Linda Fairstein — This is the latest outing for Alexandra Cooper, the smart and beautiful New York prosecutor responsible for dealing with sex crimes. She is enjoying a break in the south of France with her French restaurateur boyfriend, Luc Rouget, when a gourmet…
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The Helper

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Written by David Jackson — The Helper is the follow up to Jackson’s debut novel Pariah, and sees the return of Detective Callum Doyle. A young woman working in a small book store is viciously murdered. On her arm is written a telephone number… and Detective Callum…
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Slip & Fall

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Written by Nick Santora – Creative writing courses consistently tell their charges to write what you know. Nick Santora used to be a lawyer. Hopefully he’s never been a Mafioso, but after a career change he became a screenwriter on shows like The Sopranos and…
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Lady, Go Die! A Mike Hammer Novel

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Written by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane — I, the Jury, the first Mike Hammer novel, was published in hardcover in 1947. Initially sales were modest but the paperback edition became an incredible success. By that time, the private eye genre was well established…
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Interview: Max Allan Collins

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As we reported on Crime Fiction Lover, Max Allan Collins is the literary executor of Mickey Spillane and has completed the lost second Mike Hammer novel, Lady, Go Die! for publication. The book was originally written by Spillane in the late 1940s after I, the…
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Winter at Death's Hotel

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Written by Kenneth Cameron — Winter at Death’s Hotel is a crime novel I saw reviewed in a national Sunday paper. I bought it expecting a cosy and warm few hours’ journey through the literary conventions of a pastiche Victorian detective story. I could not…
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