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Dark Arts

Posted on February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Hammett

Review by Kate Horsley Karen Taylor’s Dark Arts is a page-turning mystery, combining well-crafted characterisation with a lively plot. The

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Dogfella

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

James Guiliani and Charlie Stella, Dogfella (Da Capo, 2015) Review by Kate Horsley When a London TV company proposes making

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Viral

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

Helen Fitzgerald, Viral, Feb 2016 Review by Lee Horsley “I sucked twelve cocks in Magaluf.” From its attention-grabbing opening line

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The Kind Worth Killing

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing (Feb 2015) Review by Lee Horsley In Peter Swanson’s The Kind Worth Killing, murderous plans are initiated in the

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Hakan Nesser

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

Hakan Nesser, A Summer with Kim Novak (1998; trans. 2015) and The Living and the Dead in Winsford (2014; trans. 2015)  Review by Lee

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You Will Know Me

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me (Little, Brown & Company, July 2016) Review by Kate Horsley Megan Abbott says that when she was

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A Death In Sweden

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

Kevin Wignall, A Death in Sweden In Kevin Wignall’s A Death in Sweden, his protagonist, Dan Hendricks, thinks “how strange it was

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War Dogs
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War Dogs

Posted on October 3, 2016 Hammett

Review by Lt. Allan L Branson  While America was founded on many principles and beliefs; exceptionalism (e.g. the space program),

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The Infiltrator

Posted on October 3, 2016 Hammett

Review by Lt. Allan L. Branson Having spent a brief time in the Narcotics Field unit, recording coordinated raid seizures,

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The Girl in the Red Coat

Posted on October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 Hammett

Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat (2015) Review by Kate Horsley Eight-year old Carmel, “the girl in the red coat”, disappears

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