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Rumrunners by Eric Better

By RoughJustice

6 May, 2015

Eric Beetner might just be noir’s James Brown. The hardest working man in crime fiction not only curates the LA chapter of the Noir at the Bar reading series, but produces a prodigious amount of short fiction for the likes of Crime Factory, Thuglit, and…

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Silent Scream

By crimefictionlover

14 April, 2015

Set in England’s Black Country – so named because of its sooty industrial past – this is a serial killer novel with a difference. Five people stand round an open grave. Each one swears a vow of silence regarding the grave – and its occupant….

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Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner

By RoughJustice

3 April, 2015

Translated by Anthea Bell — Placing the reader in a moral dilemma by asking them to empathise with a transgressive protagonist is something crime fiction has always done particularly well. As readers, we are asked to empathise with every type of criminal, from small time…

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Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

By DavidPrestidge

25 March, 2015

Lionel Davidson and his thrillers have been unjustly neglected in recent years. He blazed a trail with articulate and complex international spy stories just before John Le Carre and Len Deighton achieved celebrity status. However, a few years ago Philip Pullman selected Davidson’s 1994 novel…

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Black Wood by SJI Holliday

By DeathBecomesHer

20 March, 2015

Deep, dark woods have been the stuff of gripping tales since Red Riding Hood was a lass, so the title of this book is surely enough to alert the reader before they’ve even opened the cover. Twenty-three years ago, in the little town of Banktoun,…

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No Name Lane by Howard Linskey

By DeathBecomesHer

13 March, 2015

“Suffer the little children to come unto me,” is the New Testament phrase that drives the serial killer in this book. The faceless, deluded murderer of young girls sees it as an invitation to send the poor victims to the ‘safety’ of heaven and as…

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The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

By RoughJustice

6 March, 2015

The horror and crime genres have so much in common – strong plotting, and bad things happen to people whether they’re good or not – that it’s no surprise that there seems to be an ever increasing number of authors writing supernatural thrillers. However good…

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Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton

By Keith Nixon

25 February, 2015

Van Shaw, US Army Ranger veteran, steps off a plane in Seattle drawn back by a note from his estranged grandfather, Dono, 10 years after he suddenly left. He hasn’t heard from Dono or been home since then, undertaking tours in various war-torn theatres as…

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Rumrunners by Eric Better

Silent Scream

Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson

Black Wood by SJI Holliday

No Name Lane by Howard Linskey

The Devil's Detective by Simon Kurt Unsworth

Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton

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