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Love You to a Pulp by DS DeWildt

By RoughJustice

16 February, 2015

One of the things which makes book reviewing such a rewarding thing to do is the opportunity to discover great new writers and pass on their work to others. Sometimes a book comes along, from an author you’ve never read before, that just blows you…

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Dark Briggate Blues by Chris Nickson

By RoughJustice

21 January, 2015

With his in-depth knowledge of Leeds and its history, and a love for writing novels set in various past eras, Chris Nickson is making quite a name for himself in crime circles. Both Gods of Gold (Victorian) and The Constant Lovers (1730s) were well received by our reviewers. Will…

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An Appetite for Murder by Linda Stratmann

By spriteby

27 December, 2014

Private detective Frances Doughty first arrived in our bookshops in April 2011 in The Poisonous Seed. Set in 1880, the teenage sleuth embarked on her maiden case when one of her father’s wealthy customers died after drinking medicine he dispensed. The creator of the character,…

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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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Love You to a Pulp by DS DeWildt

Dark Briggate Blues by Chris Nickson

An Appetite for Murder by Linda Stratmann

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

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