If You Go Down to the Woods
Hank Wagner
Monday, 29 April 2019 14:30
Hank Wagner

The four teenage members of the self-proclaimed “Outsiders Club” have banded together out of a need for mutual belonging, and for safety, since they are the targets of some vicious, world-class bu

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If You Go Down to the Woods
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Seth C.
Adams
The Perfect Alibi
Sharon Magee
Monday, 29 April 2019 14:24
Sharon Magee

In The Perfect Alibi, the second in Phillip Margolin’s Robin Lockwood series, University of Oregon football star Blaine Hastings is convicted of raping teenager Randi Stark. He’s sent to prison in w

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the-perfect-alibi
The Perfect Alibi
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Phillip
Margolin
And Then You Were Gone
Robert Allen Papinchak
Monday, 29 April 2019 14:19
Robert Allen Papinchak

This time it’s a gone guy. That’s the propulsive premise behind R. J. Jacobs’ heart-pounding first mystery, And Then You Were Gone.

When 30-year-old child psychologist Emily Firestone reluctantly agrees

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And Then You Were Gone
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R. J.
Jacobs
The Time Collector
Robin Agnew
Monday, 29 April 2019 14:13
Robin Agnew

This is a blast of a read, pure story adrenaline. The two main characters, Roan West and Melicent Tilpin, are psychometrists, people who can read the memories in objects with their hands. Roan, an antiques de

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The Time Collector
1250169232
Gwendolyn
Womack
Confessions of an Innocent Man
Jay Roberts
Monday, 29 April 2019 14:06
Jay Roberts

If it is possible to both like a book and be completely put off by it at the same time, then that might be the best summation of what it was like to read David R. Dow’s debut novel, Confessions of an

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Confessions of an Innocent Man
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David R.
Dow
The Killer in Me
Sharon Magee
Thursday, 25 April 2019 17:47
Sharon Magee

Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan of Dublin is called to a grisly murder scene where the bodies of a man dressed in a priest’s vestments and a woman naked from the waist up have been po

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the-killer-in-me
The Killer in Me
152474266X
Olivia
Kiernan
Murder-A-Go-Go’s
Ben Boulden
Thursday, 25 April 2019 17:42
Ben Boulden

Murder-A-Go-Go’s, edited by Holly West, is a crime anthology with two purposes. The first, as Holly West explains in her introduction, is to raise money for women’s reproductive healthcare; “the net

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Murder-A-Go-Go’s
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Holly
West, ed.
At Home in the Dark
Ben Boulden
Thursday, 25 April 2019 17:36
Ben Boulden

At Home in the Dark, edited by Lawrence Block, is an eclectic and entertaining anthology with tales that are mostly criminal. (A Western and a horror and a dark fantasy are thrown in for good measure.) T

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At Home in the Dark
1596069171
Lawrence
Block, ed.
Condor: The Short Takes
Ben Boulden
Thursday, 25 April 2019 17:32
Ben Boulden

Condor: The Short Takes, by James Grady, collects six modern tales featuring CIA agent Condor, the same character portrayed by Robert Redford in the classic film Three Days of the Condor, which was based on G

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Condor: The Short Takes
1504056507
James
Grady
The Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets, and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s
Jon L. Breen
Thursday, 25 April 2019 16:03
Jon L. Breen

Van Dover, one of the most prolific and readable academic writers on detective fiction, considers the role of artists as detectives, perpetrators, suspects, victims, and secondary characters in detective fi

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The Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets, and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s
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J.K.
Van Dover