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Vengeance
Benjamin Black, pseudonym for Irish writer John Banville, has written number five in a series of crime noir novels featuring…
The Secret Keeper
It’s 1961, and 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson is hiding in a tree house during a family celebration, wanting only a few…
A Death in Summer
This latest offering in the Quirke series opens with the shotgun killing of newspaper proprietor Richard Jewell, aka Diamond Dick.…
The Darkening Field
Captain Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Militia’s Criminal Investigation Division is ordered to Odessa, Ukraine, to look into the suspicious…
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