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Game for Five by Marco Malvaldi

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Translated by Howard Curtis — Game For Five is the first instalment in the Bar Lume series, which are bestsellers in the author’s native Italy. Set in a small coastal town in Tuscany, the book features Massimo – a barman and amateur sleuth – and…
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Duffy by Dan Kavanagh

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You don’t find many crime novels with a blurb – “exciting, funny and refreshingly nasty” – by Martin Amis. That literary connection is a clue to the real identity of Dan Kavanagh. According to the entertaining yet spurious author biography, Kavanagh is an Irishman who…
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Original Skin

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Written by David Mark — The Dark Winter proved a best-selling debut for David Mark, grabbed a four-star review when we looked at it during New Talent November, and was on my top five crime reads of 2012. So this up and coming author had…
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A Death in Mexico

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Written by Jonathan Woods — In the Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende, Inspector Hector Diaz of the local constabulary has to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been dumped in the local plaza. Gruesomely, her eyes have been gouged…
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Harker: The Book of Soloman

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Written by Roger Gibson, art by Vince Danks — It’s been hard to avoid movies based on comic books these last few years. Avengers Assemble and The Dark Knight Rises have become two of the biggest grossing films of all time, whilst at the same…
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Hell on Church Street

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Written by Jake Hinkson — Hell on Church Street is the first novel published this year by New Pulp Press – and is this author’s debut. Like every other book from this independent publisher, this is noir all the way. These guys walk on the…
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