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Redux: Bob Kroll – The Hell of it All + Q&A
Halifax Noir A body long buried and undiscovered. An ex-con with vengeance raging in his brain. A prostitute with personal history with Peterson, and a missing daughter. All underscored by pain, loss and regret. T.J. Peterson takes the hard way through everything, leaving those in his wake either gasping or puzzled. For him it’s not the hard way through it’s the only way through. Kroll…
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On the road: Nova Scotia
Greetings from the Maritime province of Nova Scotia. I’m here visiting with friends and family. As I’ve been a bit busy, I decided to do something a little different. Last week I posted a review of the book Conviction by Denise Mina. A note from my blogging friend Victoria Weisfeld, let me know she was…
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Denise Mina: Conviction
Available June 18th Long a favourite author of mine, Denise Mina has a new stand-alone that is intense, quirky and strangely rewarding. Anna McDonald ran years ago to save her life. She is a cold case, listed as missing, presumed dead. The day her husband announces he is off with her best friend, is the…
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S.W. Lauden: Bad Citizen Corporation
Greg Salem is on the job when a bullet ending the life of a man has him suspended from the Virgil Heights PD. The sober, former punk-rock star Salem, is at a reunion gig that night with his band-mates when a fight breaks out. Three organized, masked gunmen invade Eddie’s Bar during the brawl. Salem’s…
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Emma Viskic: Resurrection Bay
Caleb Zelig and Frankie Reynolds are partners in the security investigation firm Trust Works. Zelig has dogged work and determination to his benefit. Almost completely deaf since childhood, he works hard to manage lip reading and his hearing aids. Reynolds an ex-cop, has been dry for 6-years. She maintains day to day, the best she…
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Bill Prentice: Why Was Rachel Murdered?
Brilliant mathematician, social activist, corporate gun. Rachel was all this and more until her lifeless body was discovered at home, her neck snapped. Toronto police believe she was a witness to the murder of a war criminal but one man isn’t convinced. Neil Walker, former RCMP financial crimes analyst, now PI, is hired to dig…
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Garry Disher: Under the Cold Bright Lights
Everything old is new again Available July 2nd, 2019 Detective Alan Auhl has a house full of people. His daughter, people seeking shelter, some just renting a room, and his estranged wife who drops in overnight during her demanding her travel schedule. Since his return to the department, he’s on cold cases and subject to…
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Tom Pitts: 101
Grit in the teeth – Hair up the ass Jerry is a guy going nowhere, but he’s fast heading up the 101 from San Fransisco to Humboldt County, the pot growing mecca of California. He has to hide out with Vic, a friend of his mothers. There is a little matter of stolen money, and…
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Mark Brandi: Into the River
Ben and Fab, best friends in 1989 Stawell, the Wimmera region of rural Victoria Australia. They play cricket and catch yabbies (crayfish). Sounds idyllic but there are problems. The bruises on Fab from his father, and being teased at school for his darker complexion. Ben’s next door neighbour hanged herself, she was just a girl.…
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From the Archives – Gale Massey: The Girl From Blind River
Bottom of the deck If you are Jamie Elders, you live in a dingy trailer under the thumb of your criminal uncle. Your teenage brother has problems with anger management, and your mother is an ex-con just released from prison. Jamie is 19 and knows life is better – somewhere. Meantime, she’s pretending to go…
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Nathan Ripley: Find You in the Dark
Martin Reese, loving family man, obsessive stalker. But he has that stalking thing under control, in a way that’s quite unusual. Reese researches and locates the buried bodies of a serial killer. He leaves just enough of the victim exposed so that, when he calls police to tell them he’s done their work for them…
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Hildur Sif Thorarensen: His Sweet
Feel the race against time Where the girl is held is a mystery. There a few clues and the time line to find her is harrowing – her abductor may be dead. This doesn’t stop the small town sheriff, her determined crew, and the FBI in running down any and all leads. Notebooks found in…
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Niklas Natt Och Dag: The Wolf and the Watchman
The muck and foulness of Stockholm in 1793 is well described in this debut by Niklas Natt Och Dag and you’ll cringe all along the way. A body found in a Stockholm river has the watchman Mickel Cardell reeling in shock. The victim has been horrifyingly sundered – with no arms, legs, eyes, or tongue.…
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Un-Su Kim: The Plotters
Shadow men, real world Reseng was found in a trash can. Rescued by Old Racoon, he was raised among assassins and trained to become a hit man in The Library of Dogs. With close connections to governments and corporations, Old Racoon parcels out the assignments as he receives them. These days, it seems he’s out…
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John McMahon: The Good Detective
Stunned by grief, blunted by alcohol Detective PT Marsh is creating a history of bad decisions. A favour for a woman he barely knows has him investigating a man he thinks he killed. Of course his fingerprints are all over a crime scene. But this, and the murder of a teenage boy may have connections.…