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Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

13 May, 2021

DCI Alan Banks may have been off the telly for five years, but the books that spawned the police procedural series about the Yorkshire-based detective keep coming. Not Dark Yet is the 27th novel Peter Robinson has written for fans of this stubborn officer. Banks,…

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Blood Grove

By Rafe McGregor

13 April, 2021

Ezekiel Porterhouse Rawlins has reached a professional and personal peak by the summer of 1969 in Blood Grove, the latest novel in the series by Walter Mosley. He owns the WRENS-L detective agency, drives a 1968 Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, and lives in a gated community…

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The Hunter – Italian crime show comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

7 April, 2021

Some crime shows give you a clever mystery to solve, involving interesting characters. Others take you away to an unusual, atmospheric location where, perhaps, things aren’t quite as they seem. Then there’s the kind that drop you into a situation that’s almost too difficult to…

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The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

By crimefictionlover

26 March, 2021

Crime fiction protagonists don’t need to blow the doors off like Jack Reacher, or come with brilliant minds and complex issues like just about half the detectives you can name. As Robert Goddard proves with The Fine Art of Invisible Detection, they can be utterly…

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Blood Grove by Walter Mosley

By Rafe McGregor

16 February, 2021

Blood Grove is the 15th novel in Walter Mosley’s hardboiled detective series featuring Ezekiel Porterhouse Rawlins, which began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Easy is an African American from Texas who fought in World War II and moved to Los Angeles after demobilising. By…

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Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 December, 2020

Translated by Marlaine Delargy — Detective Inspector Embla Nyström returns in the third instalment of Helene Tursten’s series based on the detective. Snowdrift picks up only eight days after the end of 2019’s Winter Grave when Embla receives a call from her childhood friend, Louise…

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Skim Deep by Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

19 November, 2020

Nolan, no first name, is a middle-aged man and former professional thief. These days – it’s 1986 in the story – he’s married and retired from armed robbery. He remains on good terms with the Outfit, the mafia-like criminal mob he occasionally worked for or…

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How To Be Nowhere by Tim MacGabhann

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 July, 2020

Fasten your seatbelts for a fast-paced and bumpy trip through the Central America jungle – and I’m not talking about the plant life – in Tim MacGabhann’s spirited new thriller. It’s a follow up to his 2019 hit debut, Call Him Mine, which Ian Rankin…

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Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

Blood Grove

The Hunter – Italian crime show comes to Walter Presents

The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

Blood Grove by Walter Mosley

Snowdrift by Helene Tursten

Skim Deep by Max Allan Collins

How To Be Nowhere by Tim MacGabhann

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