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Interview: Clare Donoghue

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Back in 2011, Clare Donoghue’s manuscript The Watcher was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. It didn’t win but she stuck with it and last year the book came out as Never Look Back. An incredible debut novel, it has made our current Recommended list…
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All the Things You Are by Declan Hughes

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Some of the best psychological thrillers start with a puzzle, a well-nigh impossible situation, which nevertheless has a perfectly rational explanation. Or so the unspoken pact with the fair-minded author tells us. This book falls into that category, and also into the so-called domestic thriller…
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Interview: Belinda Bauer

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Five novels into her crime career, Belinda Bauer has become a favourite among critics and readers alike. Her 2010 debut, Blacklands won the CWA Gold Dagger in 2010. Rubbernecker, which features an anatomy student who stumbles across a crime amidst the cadavers, was recently longlisted…
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The Ties That Bind by Erin Kelly

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“Brighton is a town that always looks as if it is helping police with their inquiries,” said the writer Keith Waterhouse. It’s an aphorism that chimes with Erin Kelly’s new novel about a former gangster who once ruled the Sussex coast. Joss Grand is now…
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The Dead Beat by Doug Johnstone

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With a story that features suicide, clinical depression and the struggling newspaper industry in Edinburgh, The Dead Beat might sound like a gloomy read. It’s certainly a hard-hitting psychological thriller, though its 90s grunge soundtrack and troubled, headstrong protagonist give the novel an angsty energy…
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