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Vengeance is Mine by Steven Torres

By RoughJustice

6 June, 2022

Ray Cruz is a hard man from the Bronx, and that’s saying something. In the past he made his living putting the hurt on others – gamblers, junkies, other hard men, it didn’t matter. Ray was handy with his fists, with a knife or a…

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Outside by Ragnar Jonasson

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2022

Translated by Victoria Cribb — Here on Crime Fiction Lover we’ve been following the career of this Icelandic author since he first appeared in English translation with Snowblind in 2015. That was the first in Ragnar Jonasson’s Ari Thor series, about a small town cop…

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A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge

By Paul Burke

16 February, 2022

The man with no name returns to the London’s streets after 10 years away and bodies start dropping here in Amen Alonge’s debut novel, A Good Day to Die. This action laden thriller is populated with fascinating characters and the best of them is the…

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Killing Evil by John Nicholl

By crimefictionlover

5 September, 2021

After working for the police and in child protection, John Nicholl became a crime author and Killing Evil is his 14th psychological thriller. The difficult issues he dealt with in his previous career come to the fore and inform the story in Killing Evil. It’s…

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Burying the Newspaper Man by Curtis Ippolito

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2021

Burying the Newspaper Man is a stylish and engaging police procedural from debut novelist Curtis Ippolito, a San Diego charity worker and former journalist. This novel is in the style and spirit of California noir but is an intriguing and original piece of storytelling. The…

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Lady Joker, Volume 1 by Kaoru Takamura

By nagaisayonara

14 May, 2021

Translated by Allison Markin Powell and Marie Iida — Lady Joker, Kaoru Takamura’s 1997 epic and the first of her novels to be translated into English, is part crime fiction and part social commentary. The publication in Japan came at a turning point in the…

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The Dirty South by John Connolly

By Paul Burke

6 April, 2021

The 18th book in John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series, The Dirty South is actually a step back in time to the aftermath of the brutal murder of Parker’s wife, Susan, and daughter, Jennifer, 20 years earlier. It doesn’t go all the way back to the…

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In the Know by Dougie Brimson

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 August, 2020

This is the third installment in author and screenwriter Dougie Brimson’s crime novels involving former football hooligan, now London car dealer Billy Evans. The word ‘former’ is misleading. Despite Billy’s current respectability, can he ever really escape his thuggish former colleagues, the unending, squint-eyed regard…

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Vengeance is Mine by Steven Torres

Outside by Ragnar Jonasson

A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge

Killing Evil by John Nicholl

Burying the Newspaper Man by Curtis Ippolito

Lady Joker, Volume 1 by Kaoru Takamura

The Dirty South by John Connolly

In the Know by Dougie Brimson

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