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CIS: A classic revisited - The Long-Legged Fly

By Zachary Colbert

11 September, 2015

This spartan but stylish New Orleans noir was James Sallis’s debut novel and the first book in his Lew Griffin series. The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to the grizzled private detective through an exchange that’s the epitome of crime noir – beautiful and brutal in…

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Every Night I Dream of Hell by Malcolm Mackay

By DavidPrestidge

7 September, 2015

Glasgow crime novels seem to be two a penny these days, but this one is different. Firstly, the city is a kind of mute spectator to the events. Apart from one or two brief references to streets and districts, there is a welcome absence of…

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Vortex by Paul D Marks

By RoughJustice

26 August, 2015

Vortex is a first-person narrated novella which readers can blast through in a couple of hours. It’s a hardboiled thriller with strong noir overtones, and is about the past – how you can’t change it or the mistakes you’ve made, and how the past changes…

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Naked Shall I Return by Christopher Bartley

By DavidPrestidge

25 August, 2015

The Bible, like Shakespeare, is always a good source of book titles. Here we have that glum fellow Job to thank. He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return.” Christopher Barley’s latest is set on the West Coast in the…

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Dead Heat with the Reaper by William E Wallace

By RoughJustice

24 August, 2015

All Due Respect is steadily building a solid reputation stateside as an indie publisher releasing the kind of gritty, hardboiled and noirish crime fiction that we enjoy. Alongside its quarterly short fiction magazine the company has been publishing novels, short story collections and novellas, and…

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First look: new from Finland

By crimefictionlover

27 July, 2015

You know that we’re crazy about cold climate crime here on Crime Fiction Lover, and in 2013 I was lucky enough not only to visit Finland but to do so just as I was reviewing Antti Tuomainen’s first crime novel The Healer. It was an…

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Aloysius Tempo by Jason Johnson

By DavidPrestidge

27 July, 2015

Aloysius Tempo was brought up hard. His mother, uncertain of which side of the Irish political divide his father came from, abandoned him a few days after his birth. She left him beside a stream, his cradle a plastic beer crate. From that inauspicious entry…

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A classic revisited: Cold Caller

By Zachary Colbert

26 July, 2015

Jason Starr’s 1997 debut is an acerbic story of white collar crime and a quarter-life crisis that brings new meaning to the term ‘dead-end job’. First picked up by the UK’s No Exit Press, the book’s publication marked the author as an exciting new voice…

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CIS: A classic revisited - The Long-Legged Fly

Every Night I Dream of Hell by Malcolm Mackay

Vortex by Paul D Marks

Naked Shall I Return by Christopher Bartley

Dead Heat with the Reaper by William E Wallace

First look: new from Finland

Aloysius Tempo by Jason Johnson

A classic revisited: Cold Caller

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