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Duffy by Dan Kavanagh

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You don’t find many crime novels with a blurb – “exciting, funny and refreshingly nasty” – by Martin Amis. That literary connection is a clue to the real identity of Dan Kavanagh. According to the entertaining yet spurious author biography, Kavanagh is an Irishman who…
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The Son by Jo Nesbo

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Best known for his Harry Hole series, Jo Nesbo is Scandinavia’s pre-eminent crime author at the moment and the last couple of years have seen him branching out in all sorts of ways. He’s working on his own rendition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and we understand…
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The Norway Room

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Written by Mick Scully — Over the last few decades, we’ve had superior gangland crime novels set in London (Layer Cake by JJ Connolly, Jake Arnott’s The Long Firm), Scunthorpe (Ted Lewis’s classic Jack’s Return Home, filmed as Get Carter) and Tom Benn’s current series…
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Closure by Larry Quartley

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Stella Kerr is raped and murdered in her London flat and her boyfriend Steve Lamb is arrested, accused of the crime. When he absconds from court this simply confirms the police’s views. Everyone is convinced of his guilt, except Steve’s mother, Sheila. She persuades DCI…
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A Venetian Moon by Bill Rogers

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After a career in education, helping improve schools in the Manchester area, Bill Rogers decided to become a crime author. He mainly writes police procedurals featuring the upstanding DCI Tom Caton. Publishing them himself, he’s become an accomplished and bestselling author with a loyal fan…
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Trouble Man

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Written by Tom Benn — Last year, Tom Benn’s Chamber Music gained plenty of praise for its gritty portrayal of the Manchester club scene and the criminals that inevitably surround it. Now his anti-hero Henry Bane is back in the third novel in the series,…
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At the End of a Dull Day

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In choosing this as her standout book of 2013, Marina Sofia found this, “Darker than dark, with fiercely black humour and a callous attitude towards its high body count.” The central character, Giorgio Pellegrini, is the quintessential bad boy we love to hate, yet cannot…
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