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A Slow Death by James Craig

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It’s one of the great movie lines of all time, so there’s no shame in Kriminalinspektor Max Drescher adapting the immortal words of Lt Colonel Kilgore from Apocalypse Now. ” I love the smell of tear gas in the morning,” Drescher observes wryly after another…
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Death on Demand by Jim Kelly

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Norfolk coppers Peter Shaw and George Valentine return for their latest outing and their beat includes the rough and ready port of King’s Lynn, as well as the gentrified coast further north. Care homes here are as common as candyfloss is in the nearby seaside…
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Blood Stream by Luca Veste

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If crime fiction is your thing (and why wouldn’t it be?) then you’ll have probably read your fair share of police procedurals. Blood Streams fits neatly into the sub-genre, but don’t let that lull you into a false sense of security. Forget the languorous days…
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The Defenceless

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Kati Hiekkapelto’s cop Anna Fekete first featured in The Hummingird (2014) and she returns in another crime thriller which exposes the raw underbelly of Finland’s normally calm and thoughtful society. Police officer Fekete and her older colleague Esko have to fight hard to stay on…
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A Taste of Ashes

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The west coast town of Ayr is the backdrop to A Taste of Ashes, the second of Tony Black’s novels featuring DI Bob Valentine. He is a cop who places himself – literally – at the sharp end, as he is just returning to duty…
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A Taste of Ashes by Tony Blank

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Detective Inspector Bob Valentine has recently returned to work in the West Scotland town of Ayr after being stabbed in the heart on a previous case. A rare night out with his long suffering and concerned family is interrupted by a murder. A man has been discovered…
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