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George Albert Brown: Who Killed Jerusalem
Ickey Jerusalem is a noted poet in 1970s California. It’s somewhat incongruous then, when his body is discovered in an airplane toilet amid flight. Aboard the flight is Dedalus “Ded” Smith, recently divorced insurance claims adjuster. Sick over his divorce and tired to death of his dead end job. Upon deplaning in San Francisco, Smith…
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David Hewson: Shooter in the Dark
Available July 18th Tom Honeyman isn’t having much luck with writing since his double murder, true crime bestseller came out in 2008. Retreating to his unpopulated island to write something, anything, Honeyman finds himself with company. A man is holding his daughter hostage on the island. He wants Honeyman to write the truth about what…
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Russ Thomas: Firewatching
Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler, talented, taciturn, reclusive, gay. He ignores the jibes from his colleagues – mostly. The body of missing financier Gerald Cartwright is found in the walls of his home when his son starts a renovation. The son Oscar, is the man Tyler had a one night stand with the night before. By…
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Janet Roger: Shamus Dust
London, England Post WWII It’s almost dawn on Christmas day when Newman’s phone rings. A City Councilor is sending his driver to bring the Private Investigator Newman to the scene of an incident. The body of Raymond Jarrett is found outside a church. Jarrett is a pimp for young men to discerning clients. And oh…
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TH1RT3EN: Steve Cavanagh
The wife of a Hollywood ‘It’ couple is found dead with her security guard in bed beside her. The husband, Robert Solomon is charged with their murders, and it’s the sensational trial of the year. The defense team hires Eddie Flynn to take on the police evidence. He’s got a bad history with the police…
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Florence Wetzel: The Grand Man
A Scandinavian Thriller Time for a bit of refresh and this may hit the spot for you. The Grand Man has lots going on as there are three crimes to be solved. Two past, one present. The murder of Sweden’s Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986, Stieg Larrson’s missing 4th book, and the murder of…
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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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Michael Pronko: The Moving Blade
Feeling Tokyo Michael Pronko contacted me out the of the blue one day, and it was the best kind of surprise. The second book of his Tokyo Mystery series, The Moving Blade was released September 30, and if you have an interest in Japanese culture in a crime fiction setting, give this serious consideration.…
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R.G. Belsky: Yesterday’s News
Today’s Story As the news director for a New York TV station, Clare Carlson is years away from her role as a newspaper journalist. She misses it from time to time, the place where she won her Pulitzer Prize for the story of Lucy, missing at 11-years old. Fifteen years later there is a…
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Olivia Kiernan: Too Close to Breathe
Breathless Detective Chief Super Frankie Sheehan is back on the job. Badly injured by a killer from a previous case, she wants no pity. Her team respect her but are cautious. There is some concern about PTSD. No escaping her keen eye though. Her first case is the death is Dr. Eleanor Costello and…
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Reavis Z. Wortham: The Rock Hole
Small town terror It’s 1964 and Center Springs Texas has a problem. It starts with the discovery of a dog tortured and killed. As Constable Ned Parker surveys the scene he recognizes this is just a beginning. As the animal killings escalate over the weeks and months, the clues left behind show that the…
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Jennifer Soosar: Parent Teacher Association
Strange assembly A good book to mark the return of the school year, the debut novel Parent Teacher Association by Jennifer Soosar. Lizanne Demeter returns to the teaching world after some time in a mental institution. She is grateful for the chance at Splinter Wood Elementary. With new medication in her pocket and determined…
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J Kent Messum: Bait + Interview
Swim for life Six strangers, all addicts, all from Miami neighbourhoods best left unnamed. Stalked, drugged and kidnapped, they awake on a small, uninhabited island in the Florida Keys. They have one days food and water, and a note advising them to swim for their next fix. It’s waiting for them on another island…
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Sisters in Crime Toronto: 25 Years
Oh What A Night The Toronto chapter of Sisters in Crime had a wonderful celebration earlier this week, marking 25 years as part of the larger Sisters in Crime organization (who are celebrating 30 years.) The history of this association is fascinating. Women crime fiction writers put remarkable effort and work into to being…
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Jane Harper: The Dry
Heat – Drought Hatred – Murder Aaron Falk left Kiewarra, Australia as a teenager, driving away from rancor and suspicion. Many years later, now a Federal Agent in Melourne, he returns for the funeral of his childhood friend Luke. The friend whom many believe killed his wife and child, before killing himself. Regional police have ruled it a murder,…