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Dead in the Dark

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Written by Stephen Booth — Detective Sergeant Diane Fry of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit is in the small Derbyshire town of Shirebrook investigating the murder of a Polish man, Krystian Zalewski. It appears Zalewski suffered a head wound before dying in his flat. But Shirebrook is…
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The Place of Refuge

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Written by Albert Tucher — Albert Tucher has made a name for himself writing about prostitute Diana Andrews. It’s quite phenomenal, really. There are 70 short stories and a novel. He sets his work in Hawaii, and while this 160-page novella doesn’t feature Diana, there…
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Murder in Montego Bay

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Written by Paula Lennon — This book is a bit of a curiosity. A debut written by a British commercial lawyer of Jamaican descent who has now moved to the Caribbean, it is the first Jamaican crime novel to be reviewed by Crime Fiction Lover….
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Soul Cage

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Written by Tetsuya Honda, translated by Giles Murray — On some scaffolding nine storeys above the Tokyo skyline, an unnamed narrator is having an exchange with Tadaharu Mishima, a deadbeat dad and sometimes construction work who has a pachinko problem. They are on their lunch break….
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Fateful Mornings

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Written by Tom Bouman — Henry Farrell is the lone policeman who patrols the back roads of Wild Thyme township in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. Mostly his job isn’t too demanding. He can park his vehicle and spend some time enjoying the local lakes and forests…
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The Shadow District

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Arnaldur Indridason has started a new series of crime novels set during World War II, and they’re worth tuning in for, as The Shadow District proves. A young woman has been found dead behind the country’s National Theatre in Reykjavik and Icelandic detective Flovent works…
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Body Breaker

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Mike Craven’s DI Avison Fluke wouldn’t ordinarily spend his weekend on a golf course, but his team has been called in to investigate a severed hand found lying on the third green at a Cumbria links. Soon they find the rest of the corpse and…
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