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Holy City by Henry Wise

By RoughJustice

3 June, 2024

Like so many novels in the noir sub-genre, Holy City by Henry Wise reveals the links between its main character’s past and their present predicament, and how, no matter which choices they may make, their fate is almost predetermined. However, what sets it apart from…

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The Pike Boys by Danny Cherry Jr

By Paul Burke

6 February, 2024

Meet the Pike Boys, heavy hitters in the New Orleans underworld. A step outside the law is the only way for dirt poor people to break out of poverty and make it in 1920s America – and when it comes to setting, what could be…

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Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

By RoughJustice

3 August, 2023

North Carolina author David Joy began his career writing about fly fishing, but we can be grateful that he changed his angle to become an acclaimed author of what’s often called rural noir or Southern gothic crime fiction. He captured the soul crushing effects of…

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What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall

By RoughJustice

31 July, 2023

It is March 2020, the COVID pandemic has begun, and Colette ‘Coco’ Weber is about to test the validity of the truism that you can never go home again. As the prospect of the first lockdown looms large, she is reluctantly returning to her childhood…

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A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

By Erin Britton

22 June, 2023

Nilima Rao’s debut novel, A Disappearance in Fiji, is a historical mystery that sheds light on the devastating consequences of a British colonial policy that is little discussed today. In so doing, she presents a very different image of Fiji from the tropical paradise and…

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All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

By RoughJustice

7 June, 2023

Titus Crown is the first black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia. The previous incumbent ran a corrupt, racist department that Crown swore he’d clean up when he took the job. He’s determined that his officers will operate by the book, without fear or favour, and…

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Force of Hate by Graham Bartlett

By Paul Burke

21 March, 2023

Graham Bartlett’s debut novel Bad for Good gave us a fictional Brighton very different from that of Peter James’ in the Roy Grace novels – grimier, the politics a lot nastier. This corrupt and corroding cityscape is even more evident in his second police procedural,…

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The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

By Paul Burke

6 March, 2023

Richard Wright is best known for his literary novel Native Son and the bestselling memoir of his early years, Black Boy. The pioneering African American author, born to Mississippi sharecroppers, addressed race and prejudice in his country head on. And racism is the theme of…

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Holy City by Henry Wise

The Pike Boys by Danny Cherry Jr

Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

What Never Happened by Rachel Howzell Hall

A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

Force of Hate by Graham Bartlett

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

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