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Fiddle City by Dan Kavanagh

By Andre

26 December, 2014

When Julian Barnes’s pseudonymous PI novel Duffy was reissued earlier this year, the literary author found himself welcomed into the crime genre. Written under the name Dan Kavanagh, Duffy was a scandalously funny, violent and sordid debut from a writer who was clearly relishing a…

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And She Was by Alison Gaylin

By DeathBecomesHer

2 December, 2014

How’s your memory? Do you religiously compile a list of groceries before your monthly shop only to leave it on the kitchen table? Do you recall, word for word, the lyrics to a song that made number 15 in the charts in 1975, but struggle…

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The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo

By nagaisayonara

22 November, 2014

Translated by William Varteresian — Edogawa Rampo was the pen name of Taro Hirai, a Japanese author active from 1923 until his death in 1965. He is known as the father of Japanese detective fiction and his work – particularly his early writing – proved that…

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NTN: The Forgotten Addiction by Michael Lion

By RoughJustice

15 November, 2014

This is Michael Lion’s second novel and it follows on from The Butcher’s Granddaughter in 2009, also published by American independent New Pulp Press. Lion has found a novel way to update the PI genre – by making the protagonist in his series a snitch….

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Music for the Dead by Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda

By nagaisayonara

20 October, 2014

Translated by Nick Caistor – It’s not often that a crime novel calls to mind the work of Boris Vian, the multi-talented French saxophonist, writer, translator and publisher who, when asked to discover the latest American noir author and translate his work into French, decided…

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Compulsion by Bruce W Perry

By DavidPrestidge

13 October, 2014

Karl Standt has a back story. The former New York cop, now a private investigator, is still regaining his health after broken bones and a drug addiction were the price he paid for tracking down a missing heiress. All this happened in Gone On Kauai,…

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Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

By DeathBecomesHer

30 September, 2014

As all die-hard crime fiction fans know, some of the world’s best-selling authors aren’t happy unless they churn out book after book in a series featuring a recurring central character. After a while, some of those characters begin to feel like friends. Sadly, others get…

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Rose Gold by Walter Mosley

By DavidPrestidge

20 September, 2014

It is the mid 1960s and in Los Angeles black folks have, to a degree, been replaced by young political activists and hippies as the biggest perceived threat to the white middle classes – and the LAPD. Even so, PI Ezekiel ‘Easy’ Rawlins is surprised…

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Fiddle City by Dan Kavanagh

And She Was by Alison Gaylin

The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo

NTN: The Forgotten Addiction by Michael Lion

Music for the Dead by Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda

Compulsion by Bruce W Perry

Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

Rose Gold by Walter Mosley

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