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Ed's Dead

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Written by Russel D McLean — Jen Carter, the young Glaswegian bookstore clerk who narrates this book, makes one tiny mistake at the novel’s outset. When she comes home late at night to find her apartment door open, she searches the place, kitchen knife in…
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Let the Dead Speak

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Written by Jane Casey — Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan last made an appearance on this site more than two years ago, in a two-star review of The Kill, which I was surprised to discover was written by me! Oddly, in Let The Dead Speak, I felt like…
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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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Ragdoll by Daniel Cole

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Rag dolls are harmless toys, right? Something for your kid to cuddle up with in bed or to chuck out of the buggy at tantrum time. After reading this book, you’ll never look at them in the same way again. Perhaps the strange truncation of the two words…
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The Caller

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Written by Chris Carter — FaceTime and Skype are great inventions, aren’t they? You can chat face to face with somebody who is the other side of the world with just a couple of taps on your tablet. Or, you could call someone and then…
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The Sixth Window

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Written by Rachel Abbott — Authors today have a choice. They can go down the standard route, sending their manuscripts to traditional publishers who may or may not give it the attention it deserves. Or, they can self-publish through platforms like Amazon. Rachel Abbott, once the owner…
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