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The Blue Flame by George Pelecanos

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Reading The Blue Flame, the first new crime novel by acclaimed author George Pelecanos since 2018, is like slipping into a comfortable pair of shoes—easy, familiar and you just know they’ll take you places. This novel features aging private detective Derek Strange, protagonist of five…
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Traitors by Robert McCaw

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The premise of Robert B McCaw’s new Washington, DC-based political thriller, Traitors, is that a group of five Russian sleeper agents has, over time, worked its way up into the highest reaches of the US government. The new head of the Department of Justice’s National…
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Meet the author: Daniel Yager

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Like many of the authors we meet, Daniel Yager put aside his writing aspirations after law school and focused on putting food on the table for his young family. However, reaching semi-retirement, he returned to his keyboard and on 5 August 2025, Daniel’s debut crime…
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Interview: Miles Joyner

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Today we welcome to the site Miles Joyner, a new crime author based in Washington, DC, who is about to release his first techno thriller. Bazaar is set in Miles’s hometown and opens with the assassination of a diplomat’s son while he waits for the…
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Committed by Chris Merritt

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Committed is a spy story cum conspiracy thriller with some psychological noir in the mix, and perhaps this isn’t surprising given the author’s background. The British writer Chris Merritt is a former diplomat, a psychologist specialising in PTSD and works as a cyber security consultant….
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Betrayal by David Gilman

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If Reacher were a spy, not a citizen avenger, he’d be a lot like the Englishman, Dan Raglan, the protagonist of David Gilman’s new globe trotting action series. There’s a comparable level of excitement in this thriller series for Jack Reacher fans to savour and…
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