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We Create Monsters by Martin Sterling

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In the rain-streaked streets of northern England, something’s afoot. We’re talking soap opera land here, a fictional place where gritty drama with a social conscience rubs shoulders with the impossible and the improbable. The latest suspension of belief is about to fall on Salford Quays…
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Gone to Ground by Morgan Hatch

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Morgan Hatch’s debut thriller, Gone to Ground, is like a pyramid of Southern California crime and rich in unscrupulous invention. The story takes place mostly in an impoverished area of the East San Fernando Valley and involves the full spectrum of people struggling to get…
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Legacy by Chris Hammer

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Six years after we first encountered Aussie investigative journalist Martin Scarsden in Scrublands, he’s back in Legacy, the fourth book in the series – and what a book it is! As it opens, Martin is at home in Port Silver and about to launch his…
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The Final Episode by Lori Roy

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Why one story totally captures my attention and another doesn’t, I can’t always pinpoint. It’s some ineffable yet powerful characteristic that goes beyond plot, character and setting. For whatever reasons Lori Roy’s new thriller, The Final Episode, kept me spellbound. She provides a great set-up…
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Sayulita Sucker by Craig Terlson

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The new crime thriller, Sayulita Sucker by Canadian author Craig Terlson, takes readers for a wild ride to back alleys and dicey neighbourhoods in coastal Mexico that aren’t featured in any guidebook. The story’s protagonist is Luke Fischer, who has featured in three of Terlson’s…
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