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A classic revisited: Gorky Park

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Ronald Reagan was steering his course to the White House when Gorky Park came out in 1981. Meanwhile, an ageing autocrat called Leonid Brezhnev, with mighty eyebrows, was the General Secretary of the USSR. In the West, we worried about mutually assured nuclear armageddon. The…
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Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton

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Steve Hamilton returns again to the frozen landscape of Paradise, Michigan, for his eighth novel featuring sometime PI Alex McKnight. McKnight used to be a police officer working the mean streets of Detroit, but he left after getting injured in the line of duty. He…
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No Man’s Nightingale by Ruth Rendell

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In 2014 Ruth Rendell will celebrate 50 years as a published author of ingenious procedurals and disquieting psychological crime, and her debut novel, From Doon with Death, will be reissued to mark the anniversary. Baroness Rendell of Babergh remains remarkably prolific at the age of…
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Babylon by Camilla Ceder

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Readers and publishers alike are eager to discover the ‘next big thing’ in Scandinavian crime fiction. Will this story of love, jealousy and the trade in stolen cultural artefacts be what they’re looking for? Two lovers are shot dead in a flat in Gothenburg, Sweden….
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The Keeper

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Written by Luke Delaney — We first met DI Sean Corrigan, and his creator, former London Metropolitan Police murder squad detective Luke Delaney, earlier this year in the debut novel Cold Killing. Corrigan is an unusual character. In fact, he’s probably unique in crime fiction. Abused…
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Summertime All the Cats Are Bored

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Written by Philippe Georget — Despite the distinctively postmodern title, this book is not a noir-ish meditation on the futility of existence. Instead, it is a straightforward though not to say simplistic police procedural. Summertime All the Cats Are Bored is set in the Perpignan area…
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