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#imwayr It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 8 January 2018

I've only become aware of It's Monday! What Are You Reading? today and am delighted to share my contribution: #IMWAYR is a weekly place to share extra #booklove in the form of what you have read over the last week, what you are currently reading and what's coming next, hosted by Kathryn at Book Date. So… Continue reading #imwayr It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 8 January 2018

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Dark Pines by Will Dean #darkpines @willrdean @oneworldnews @ptblankbks

An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods. It’s week one of the Swedish elk hunt and the sound of gunfire is everywhere. When Tuva Moodyson investigates the story that could make her career she stumbles… Continue reading Dark Pines by Will Dean #darkpines @willrdean @oneworldnews @ptblankbks

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Best crime reads of 2017 – Part Two

Following on from my Best crime reads of 2017 - Part One, and in no particular order, here are the last eight nine! of my absolute favourites from this year. Again most of the following were ARCs so I am extremely grateful to #NetGalley and all the publishers and authors for granting me the opportunity to… Continue reading Best crime reads of 2017 – Part Two

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Best crime reads of 2017 – Part One

2017 has been another amazing year for crime fiction and I have been very fortunate to read some brilliant books. All of the following were ARCs so I am extremely grateful to #NetGalley and all the publishers and authors for granting me the opportunity to read them. In no particular order, here are the first eight… Continue reading Best crime reads of 2017 – Part One

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The Present by D S Devlin

12 deadly gifts, one killer on a Christmas countdown… On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… this is one deadly Christmas that you can’t forget.The police are baffled by the ‘Santa’ killer, who sends his intended victims gruesome presents based on the twelve days of Christmas. When a young journalist… Continue reading The Present by D S Devlin

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The Deaths of December by Susi Holliday

It looks like a regular advent calendar. Until DC Becky Greene starts opening doors...and discovers a crime scene behind almost every one. The police hope it's a prank. Because if it isn't, a murderer has just surfaced - someone who's been killing for twenty years. But why now? And why has he sent it to… Continue reading The Deaths of December by Susi Holliday

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Broken Bones (D.I. Kim Stone 7) by Angela Marsons

They thought they were safe. They were wrong. The murder of a young prostitute and a baby found abandoned on the same winter night signals the start of a disturbing investigation for Detective Kim Stone – one which brings her face to face with someone from her own horrific childhood. As three more sex workers… Continue reading Broken Bones (D.I. Kim Stone 7) by Angela Marsons

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Cold Blood (Detective Erika Foster 5) by Robert Bryndza

The suitcase was badly rusted, and took Erika several attempts, but it yielded and sagged open as she unzipped it. Nothing could prepare her for what she would find inside… When a battered suitcase containing the dismembered body of a young man washes up on the shore of the river Thames, Detective Erika Foster is… Continue reading Cold Blood (Detective Erika Foster 5) by Robert Bryndza