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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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Fever City

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Tim Baker brings us a high voltage tale of kidnapping, the plot to murder JFK, and dark family secrets. His title can point us in one direction only, and it’s everyone’s favourite crime fiction location – The City of Angels. Baker flits back and forward between…
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Make Me by Lee Child

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Baggage. Where would crime fiction protagonists be without it? There’s no doubt it plays a huge part in defining the ever-growing cast of flawed heroes and heroines that people our favourite reads. Jack Reacher is different though. He’s a man who carries no baggage, of…
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The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver

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He’s the master of smoke and mirrors, disguise and deceit, and this time Jeffery Deaver sets his brain-twisting new Lincoln Rhyme novel in the most hi-tech of situations. Quadriplegic crime-solver Rhyme relies upon the latest technology to help him function. He’s Jeffery Deaver’s main series character…
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The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

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Lisa Lutz is the author of The Spellman Chronicles, a series with six entries so far about the comic adventures of a dysfunctional family of private investigators. The Passenger, billed as a dark psychological thriller in the vein of Gone Girl, therefore represents something of…
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Devil in the Grass by Christopher Bowron

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This debut thriller is an ambitious mix of Florida politics, Satanic cults, Seminole tradition, alligators and even a bull shark. Canadian author Christopher Bowron is clearly familiar with the southwest Florida setting, which he describes expertly, bringing the story to vivid life. We recently interviewed…
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