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Sympathy for the Devil

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William Shaw’s Sympathy for the Devil sways to the samba beat of 1960s London as DS Cathal Breen investigates the death of a Polish prostitute. Soon the intelligence services and higher forces are taking an interest and Breen smells a conspiracy as he tries to…
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Secrets of the Dead

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Written by Carol Wyer — Rachel Abbott is a name mentioned in awed tones in crime fiction circles. Her books have sold by the truckload and she’s the UK’s best-loved self-published author, with sales many traditionally published writers can only dream of. You can read…
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Trust Me

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Written by Angela Clarke — How can you solve a crime when the witness has no proof it ever occurred? It’s an interesting premise as the third in Angela Clarke’s social media series takes live-streaming as its centre point. Home alone on a Friday night,…
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A Necessary Evil

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Written by Abir Mukherjee — Reading this fast-paced police procedural is like a trip back in time to the British Raj, mid-1920. Calcutta-based Imperial Police Force Captain Sam Wyndham and his Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee – whom Wyndham insists on calling Surrender-not – find themselves embroiled…
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Love Like Blood

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Written by Mark Billingham — It must be easy for a series author to fall into a pattern, giving us murder by numbers and keeping an established audience happy with a book a year. But we knew there would be something special about Love Like Blood, Mark…
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Crimes of Winter

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Written by Philippe Georget, translated by Steven Rendall — We have encountered Inspector Gilles Sebag before on Crime Fiction Lover. He lives in Perpignan, on the south-western tip of France, right next to the Catalan border. It is a magical place in summer, full of hazy…
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