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Ruins of War by John A Connell

By DavidPrestidge

17 May, 2015

This is a crime debut for John A Connell, a Paris-based author. Once a cameraman, he has worked both in Hollwood and for the small screen. Ruins of War features a former cop – Mason Collins – who is working as a criminal investigator with…

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The House That Jack Built by Jakob Melander

By Jeremy Megraw

13 May, 2015

Copenhagen detective Lars Winkler can’t seem to get much respect lately. His wife has left him for his boss Ulrik, and when we catch up with him in the book’s opening he has just returned to the Homicide and Violent Crime Unit after taking some…

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The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr

By DavidPrestidge

1 April, 2015

The German policeman Bernie Gunther returns for his 10th outing. Fans of the series will know that the books are not in a chronological sequence and that Kerr has positioned Gunther as a man who served in World War I and II, and survived long…

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World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

By RoughJustice

3 March, 2015

What an incredible career Dennis Lehane is having. Of his American contemporaries, perhaps only Michael Connelly has managed to sustain a similar degree of commercial and critical success in the crime genre. His early, gritty PI novels in the Kenzie and Gennaro series were followed…

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The Investigation

By DavidPrestidge

19 January, 2015

Korean crime fiction is something of a rarity, so this translation by Chi-Young Kim is a find. It is 1944, and a mixture of criminals, anti-war activists and Korean partisans are being held in Fukuoka Prison, a Japanese POW camp. The guards have a particularly…

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The Beast in the Red Forest by Sam Eastland

By RoughJustice

12 January, 2015

The Inspector Pekkala series began in 2010 with The Eye of the Red Tsar and now reaches its fifth novel. The books are set in the Soviet Union during WWII; specifically on the Eastern Front where Axis forces battled the Red Army from 1941 onwards…

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NTN: The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin

By DavidPrestidge

19 November, 2014

Captain Gregor Reinhardt won the Iron Cross while serving in the trenches with the German army in World War I. After a spell between the wars where he became one of the best detectives in Berlin’s Kriminalpolizei, he has reluctantly accepted a commission in the…

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Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

By DeathBecomesHer

30 September, 2014

As all die-hard crime fiction fans know, some of the world’s best-selling authors aren’t happy unless they churn out book after book in a series featuring a recurring central character. After a while, some of those characters begin to feel like friends. Sadly, others get…

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Ruins of War by John A Connell

The House That Jack Built by Jakob Melander

The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr

World Gone By by Dennis Lehane

The Investigation

The Beast in the Red Forest by Sam Eastland

NTN: The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin

Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky

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