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Damned if You Do by Michael Brandman

By RoughJustice

7 September, 2014

The late Robert B Parker will always be remembered for Spenser, the Boston PI who polled at number six in our best 12 private eyes feature. That character was kept alive by Ace Atkins in the novel Wonderland and now Jesse Stone, another of Parker’s…

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Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson

By DavidPrestidge

30 August, 2014

In the Yorkshire city of Leeds, there is a massive gulf between the rich and the poor. It is 1890, and the rich industrialists are getting richer beyond their wildest dreams. The chimneys belch out smoke but the grime turns to gold for the factory…

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The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey

By DavidPrestidge

16 August, 2014

Amsterdam copper Henk van der Pol is old school. Now in his 50s, his daughter is away at university, and all around him bright young things are moving up through the police ranks. He has been an institution man for much of his working life…

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Hardcastle's Quartet by Graham Ison

By DavidPrestidge

13 August, 2014

It’s the summer of 1918 and people are tired of a war which was supposed to over by Christmas four years earlier. On the Western Front, the Germans are finally on the back foot, but in London the war against crime still goes on. Divisional…

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Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

By Andre

29 July, 2014

Suspense has always been Stephen King’s stock-in-trade, but he’s increasingly turning to crime too. The much-admired Joyland was published last year in the Hard Case Crime series, and his latest book more than lives up to the publisher’s description of a riveting mystery thriller. This…

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Broken Monsters

By Andre

26 July, 2014

Written by Lauren Beukes — Detroit always has the potential to be a compelling backdrop to a crime novel, and in the hands of the wildly inventive Lauren Beukes this decaying city becomes a bad dream. The South African writer made her name with science…

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To the Top of the Mountain by Arne Dahl

By Andre

24 July, 2014

Translated by Alice Menzies — Crime readers have to get used to time lags in English translations, but you suspect some devoted fans of Arne Dahl have decided to learn Swedish rather than wait for the UK publisher to catch up. To the Top of…

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Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black

By DeathBecomesHer

22 July, 2014

He is probably best known as the author of the acclaimed Gus Dury thrillers, set in the mean streets of Edinburgh, but Tony Black has turned his sights to a much less likely setting for Artefacts of the Dead. That setting is the sleepy seaside…

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Damned if You Do by Michael Brandman

Gods of Gold by Chris Nickson

The Harbour Master by Daniel Pembrey

Hardcastle's Quartet by Graham Ison

Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

To the Top of the Mountain by Arne Dahl

Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black

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