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The Road to Woop Woop by Eugen Bacon
In Australia, the slang expression ‘woop woop’ can be used to describe ‘the middle of nowhere’. However, each of these twenty-four distinctive ...
Fortune Favours the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
Another crime series? Where to go these days with the genre it seems? Well, in this instance to 1940s New York and a wonderful new dynamically ...
Betrayal by Lilja Sigardardottir
Remember Snare, Trap and Cage? (2017-19, Orenda Books). Like any self respecting fan of Scandi-noir I was taken with Sigardardottir’s superb trilogy ...
The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside by Jessica Ryn
What a wonderful, wonderful read this is. The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside is everything I want in a book. Dawn is 42 and homeless. We know ...
A Blackpool Christmas by Maggie Mason
A Maggie Mason book is always a true pleasure to read, but A Blackpool Christmas is a bit special as it is the third in the Sandgronians trilogy and ...
GCHQ by John Ferris
Behind the Enigma The Authorised History of GCHQ Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency. The papers have had their run ins with the security ...
Scatter Her Ashes by Heine Bakkied
Scatter Her Ashes is the follow up novel that confirms Bakkied as a distinct voice in Nordic noir and as a writer with staying power. 2019’s I Will ...
Snow by John Banville
As an opener for a new series Snow, Banville’s first crime novel published under his own name, is promising; an intriguing and satisfyingly complex ...
The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey
‘I want and fear the creature’s death. I mean my fish-house. How long may it live, and how long has it lived already? A thing cannot go on ...
All Your Little Lies by Marianne Holmes
All Your Little Lies is a twisty story focused around the disappearance of a 12 year old girl from the small town where Annie Marwood lives., ...
The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Publisher’s synopsis Việt-Nam 1972. Hương and her grandmother Trần Diệu Lan cling to one another in their improvised shelter in Hà Nội as American ...
Fallen Angels by Gunnar Staalesen
I’m not sure I like direct comparisons between authors, it’s apples and oranges. However, Staalesen is often compared to Scandi-noir’s finest and ...
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
I had been seeing Diane Cook’s latest novel, The New Wilderness, everywhere before receiving a review copy. The novel has been shortlisted ...
The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek
Book 1 of the Banlieues Series. A gritty crime novel from France that manages to be upbeat and has a refreshingly original cop at it’s heart – ...
The Bigamist by Mary Turner Thomson
This is a true story originally published in 2007. So why a third paperback edition this year? Well film rights have been sold. “There is a ...
Blunt Force by Lynda La Plante
This novel provides an insight into the early career of Detective Jane Tennison, who you may be familiar with from the Prime Suspect crime series. ...
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