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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy revisited

19 October, 2023

While Cormac McCarthy is often hailed as the author who revived and reinvented the Western, some of his stories fit equally well within the genre we love most – crime fiction. None more so, perhaps, than No Country for Old Men, a book that sits…

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Big Island, LA by Boston Teran

By RoughJustice

12 October, 2023

Big Island, LA connects the dots between a heist gone wrong at a police shooting range and corporate greed and political corruption, leaving a former combat marine and an agoraphobic crime reporter to sort out the mystery. It’s a new crime novel from Boston Teran…

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Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 July, 2023

Reed Farrel Coleman’s new crime thriller Sleepless City is for readers who like their noir black as ink and thick as pitch. You can’t really call it a police procedural, simply because main character Nick Ryan doesn’t follow law enforcement procedures in any way his…

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The End of Us by Olivia Kiernan

By Paul Burke

27 June, 2023

An author never quite knows what we readers will take to and Olivia Kiernan‘s tough, compassionate protagonist DCI Frankie Sheehan of the Dublin Garda has garnered plenty of fans. With The End of Us, the author steps away from Frankie’s four novels of pain and…

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Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison

By Paul Burke

3 May, 2023

Some TV shows open a door for crime fiction, and surely the popularity of Peaky Blinders, though entirely fictional, reminds us that ganglands are as old as cities and didn’t arrive with the Krays in 1960s London. Scottish author Robbie Morrison’s 2021 debut crime novel,…

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The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

19 April, 2023

Translated by Rachel Ward — Unlike Erdinger or St Pauli Girl, German crime fiction doesn’t always travel as well as the country’s beers. However, the Chastity Riley series by Simone Buchholz has been something to behold. Beginning with Blue Night, Orenda Books has translated and…

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The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

By Paul Burke

6 March, 2023

Richard Wright is best known for his literary novel Native Son and the bestselling memoir of his early years, Black Boy. The pioneering African American author, born to Mississippi sharecroppers, addressed race and prejudice in his country head on. And racism is the theme of…

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Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow

By RoughJustice

24 January, 2023

Set in Birmingham in 1933, Needless Alley explores provincial England between the wars from a working class and queer perspective. It’s a debut novel for Natalie Marlow, a Warwickshire-based author whose passion is for stories from the past, and the book is named after a…

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy revisited

Big Island, LA by Boston Teran

Sleepless City by Reed Farrel Coleman

The End of Us by Olivia Kiernan

Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison

The Acapulco by Simone Buchholz

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow

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