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Into the Black Nowhere

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Written by Meg Gardiner — Last year, Meg Gardiner’s first Unsub novel was published. It went on to receive praise from crime fiction luminaries as varied as Don Winslow, Adrian McKinty, and Steve Hamilton. We couldn’t help but notice the buzz building around her follow-up, and…
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Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

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Trust Attica Locke to write something timely, urgent and true about troubled race relations in present-day America. As she has said in interviews, she wrote Bluebird, Bluebird before President Trump’s election, an event which has changed the book without her having to alter a single…
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Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade

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Written by Joe R Lansdale — In his afterword for this book, Joe R Lansdale describes Blood and Lemonade as a mosaic novel somewhat in the manner of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. It’s a collection of stories, that might move back or forward in time,…
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The Jealous Kind

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Written by James Lee Burke — In this latest stand alone novel, one of America’s most celebrated crime fiction novelists transports us back to 1950s Houston. Many who reminisce love to believe that this decade was a golden period in American history. World War II was over, the economy…
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The Far Empty

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If it was down to cover alone, J Todd Scott’s effort might just end up as book of the year. But it’s what’s inside that really matters and The Far Empty is set in the outlaw country just inside Texas on the Mexican border. The…
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Last Light

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CJ Lyons immerses us in small town Texas in this cold case thriller. Ex-FBI agent Lucy Guardino is head hunted by a consulting agency that tries to solve cases the authorities couldn’t… or at least the ones they couldn’t resolve properly. Down in Blackwell County, Texas,…
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Last Light by CJ Lyons

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Some of my favourite novels are set in small town America. Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher tale, Make Me, has most of the action taking place in a tight knit community and that sense of claustrophobia plays a huge part in marking the book so gripping….
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