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The Bitter Season

By Vicki Weisfeld

26 June, 2016

Written by Tami Hoag — The Bitter Season is Hoag’s latest crime thriller featuring the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based team of police detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska. This time, the pair is split up, because Liska has opted to join a new cold case unit, hoping…

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The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh

By DeathBecomesHer

31 May, 2016

A mother is out in the park, watching her young daughters at play. What on earth could prompt her to suddenly walk away, leaving them alone, frightened and vulnerable? Where has Selena Cole gone to? She has been recently widowed and is grieving. Has she been…

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A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

29 May, 2016

It is the summer of 1923, and Madras is so hot that even the locals are finding it hard going. Many of the British civil servants, who still run India, are suffering torments inside their formal suits and starched collars. One employee of the Raj,…

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Blood Torment by TF Muir

By DeathBecomesHer

21 May, 2016

Back in 2014 I reviewed The Meating Room by the same author and it took months to scour some of the gorier moments of that tale from my subconscious. The latest in the DCI Andy Gilchrist series – we’re now at number six – is a…

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The Birdwatcher by William Shaw

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 May, 2016

The first lines of this contemporary police procedural set up the defining characteristics of the protagonist: “There were two reasons why William South did not want to be on the murder team. “The first was that it was October. The migrating birds had begun arriving…

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Behind Dead Eyes by Howard Linskey

By Keith Nixon

14 May, 2016

Tom Carney, true crime author, keeps receiving letters imploring him for help. These are no ordinary pleas, the writer no ordinary person. The letters are from convicted killer Richard Bell who is languishing in prison for murdering his lover. Bell claims he’s innocent and believes…

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A Tapping at My Door by David Jackson audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

6 May, 2016

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble — The early chapters of this police procedural are tremendously intriguing. A woman copper in Liverpool is murdered in her back garden, with a dead raven splayed over her face. Only when the crime scene investigators remove the bird do they…

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Death Do Us Part by Steven Dunne

By Keith Nixon

2 May, 2016

Detective Inspector Damen Brook of Derby CID is back, with a new case and a new set of troubles. An old couple are found dead in their house, in a quiet Derby suburb. Holding hands, both are smartly dressed, their favourite piece of music playing…

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The Bitter Season

The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh

A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart

Blood Torment by TF Muir

The Birdwatcher by William Shaw

Behind Dead Eyes by Howard Linskey

A Tapping at My Door by David Jackson audiobook

Death Do Us Part by Steven Dunne

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