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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It is the mid 1960s and in Los Angeles black folks have, to a degree, been replaced by young political activists and hippies as the biggest perceived threat to the white middle classes – and the LAPD.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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CIS: Lost classics by Arthur Lyons

By Raven

18 September, 2014

All too often when I cite Arthur Lyons (1946-2008) as one of my favourite crime writers I am met with a blank expression or something like: ‘Who? Never heard of him…’ Likewise, when I was researching some background material for this article, there was a…

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The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

By DeathBecomesHer

9 September, 2014

Have you ever had to step into someone else’s shoes? It’s tough trying to equal, or better, what came before, isn’t it? And when that someone else is the undisputed queen of crime, the legendary Dame Agatha Christie, then you would surely have to be…

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Borderline

By crimefictionlover

30 June, 2014

The sexual violence that occurs here and there in Lawrence Block’s short stories may be borderline gratuitous, but if you’re looking for some classic pulp from the author’s back catalogue, you’d be borderline insane for not picking up this Hard Case Crime edition. Inside are…

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Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

By Andre

23 June, 2014

It’s an audacious move putting the name of your detective in the title of a novel, but Claire DeWitt is a big enough character to justify such confidence. The second novel in Sara Gran’s San Francisco crime series is a strange, heady narrative that draws…

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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

By Andre

19 June, 2014

Last summer it was revealed that JK Rowling had a secret identity as crime writer Robert Galbraith, a cunning ruse to prove she wasn’t just relying on her name to get published. Galbraith had already been named one to watch by Val McDermid and Mark…

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Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

By nagaisayonara

16 June, 2014

Written by CS Boag — The Case of the Horses for Corpses is the third in CS Boag’s Mister Rainbow series, a collection about a classic hardboiled PI living in modern day Sydney. Mister Rainbow (or Rain for short) is a down-and-out private eye in…

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Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

Rose Gold by Walter Mosley

CIS: Lost classics by Arthur Lyons

The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

Borderline

Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

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