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The Art of Violence by SJ Rozan

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 December, 2020

The Art of Violence is the latest in SJ Rozan’s popular and long-running series featuring private investigators and romantic partners Bill Smith and Lydia Chin. Former client Sam Tabor has recently been released from the Green Haven Correctional Facility, where he’d been serving time for…

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Lethal Voyage by Kevin G Chapman

By DeathBecomesHer

24 November, 2020

Let’s put my cards on the table from the off – I’ve never really fancied a cruise, though lots of my friends swear by this form of vacation. I don’t like the idea of being stuck in the middle of the ocean with a bunch…

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Brothers Keepers by Donald E Westlake revisited

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 September, 2020

Donald E Westlake’s books first appeared on my shelves in the 1970s, sort of mid-way in his 60-year publishing career. Westlake was the award-winning author of more than a hundred books – not all of them novels. He specialised in crime fiction and, especially, novels…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips

By RoughJustice

13 July, 2020

Los Angeles-based author Gary Phillips has been writing crime in a variety of styles and media for nearly 30 years. I can remember reading about his black PI, Ivan Monk, in books such as Violent Spring in the late 90s. He’s since branched out into…

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Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

By DeathBecomesHer

1 June, 2020

Brother and sister team Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra are behind this debut police procedural, the first in a series featuring veteran NYPD detective Tommy Keane. He’s just over a year from retirement and should be coasting it, but after committing a breach of…

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The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 April, 2020

The third RG Belsky crime thriller to feature harried Channel 10 news director Clare Carlson, The Last Scoop puts our heroine in the middle of both a puzzling murder story and the potential exposé of New York political shenanigans (spoiler alert: money is involved). Each…

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Nine Tenths of the Law by Claudia Hagadus Long

By Vicki Weisfeld

20 April, 2020

This literary crime thriller by Claudia Hagadus Long is part treasure hunt, part family story, part romance, part tragic history. Long weaves these elements together in a complicated plot through the strong voice of her story’s sympathetic narrator, Zara Persil-Pendleton. Zara and her husband Sam…

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The Art of Violence by SJ Rozan

Lethal Voyage by Kevin G Chapman

Brothers Keepers by Donald E Westlake revisited

An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple by Gary Phillips

Sister Margaret by Travis Myers and Natasha Myers Marsiguerra

The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

Nine Tenths of the Law by Claudia Hagadus Long

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