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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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La Frontera by Sam Hawken

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Sam Hawken’s The Dead Women of Juarez and Tequila Sunset set the ball rolling for this popular author who takes a look at the perils of life on both sides of the border between Mexico and Texas. We last reviewed Missing in 2014, but we missed the 2013…
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Kill Me Again by Rachel Abbott

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Lies. Even a teeny weeny white one can snowball into something of epic proportions if you’re not careful. But if everyone told the truth, where would crime fiction readers be? Or defence solicitors for that matter? Maggie Taylor is one of the latter, newly arrived…
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