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It all starts with stealing from the cookie jar. Crime books of all shapes and sizes. One of them will be the culprit for a good evening’s read.

Doing Deals by Terence O’Rourke

Better to be respected and feared…

When crime lord Bobby Collins loses most of his operations in Hull due to an underling’s incompetence, he experiences a major setback. But he handles it with typical staunchess–he simply begins a new venture in Liverpool.

All is going well until his new business operation gets caught up in a gang war with the Triads. The police are also more determined than ever to take him down.

Life is not easy for a man like Bobby Collins. But he keeps it simple. No matter what the Triads, the police, or anyone else tries to do, he will continue to prove why he’s the top boss in the north, by being a brutally aggressive force to be respected and feared.

Join Collins in his element taking care of business as usual and Doing Deals. If you can’t get enough of ruthless villains and british crime fiction set in the past, this violent thriller is for you.

 

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Spiral Into Darkness by Joseph Lewis

Readers’ Choice Top 50 Best Indie Books

“A thoroughly compulsive police procedural by one of America’s most promising new writers.” –Best Thrillers

He blends in. He is successful, intelligent and methodical. There are no clues. There are no leads. The only thing the FBI and local police have to go on is the method of death: two bullets to the face—gruesome and meant to send a message. But it’s difficult to understand any message coming from a dark and damaged mind. Two adopted boys, struggling in their own world, have no idea they are the next targets. Neither does their family. And neither does local law enforcement.

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The Killing Line by John Dean

A schoolgirl is found dead from a drugs overdose. The second in a few weeks. DCI Jack Harris suspects there is more to the tragedy.

The small Pennine town of Levton Bridge is up in arms. The locals are campaigning for a young offender centre to be closed down. The death of the girls fuels their anger.

Following the second death, a murder investigation gets underway. School friends of the victim are interviewed but keep shtum.

Soon the inquiry centres on Lee Smedley, a young tearaway known to the police for robbery and drugs dealing. But he is fleet of foot and not so easy to pin down.

With the townsfolk putting increasing pressure on the authorities, DCI Jack Harris must get results. Can he collar the right person for the crime?

This is the seventh book in a series of murder mysteries by John Dean. It can be enjoyed entirely on its own.

The full list of books is as follows:

1. Dead Hill
2. The Vixen’s Scream
3. To Die Alone
4. To Honour the Dead
5. Thou Shalt Kill
6. Error of Judgement
7. The Killing Line
8. Kill Shot
9. Last Man Alive
10. The Girl in the Meadow

All of these books are free with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback from Amazon.

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Guilty Party by Candy Denman

Curiosity about a strangled lawyer leads police doctor Callie Hughes along a bumpy road to the truth

When a lawyer is found dead in his home, the circumstances are indeed strange, if not wholly suspicious. An act of auto-eroticisation has gone terribly wrong, leading to an unintended climax to his life.

It is only after another lawyer is found dead in his former boss’s pool that Dr Callie Hughes begins to suspect there is more to the deaths. But she can’t act on her instincts until the pathology reports are filed.

What she can do is explore the men’s respective backgrounds. Both having worked in the justice system, there are more than a few disgruntled individuals who could have wanted them dead. The challenge will be finding one connected to both men.

Juggling her work as a forensic pathologist and part-time GP, Callie risks overstepping the mark when it comes to investigating the case. But her instincts have been proven right in the past. And when another lawyer is publicly humiliated, she begins to develop a theory.

Whilst the police may have seen her meddling as a hindrance in the past, when the strange antics in the coastal town of Hastings continue, in more ways than one they’ll be grateful that through her sleuthing, she has closed in on the killer.

GUILTY PARTY is the third Dr Callie Hughes murder mystery. It can be enjoyed as a standalone or alongside the other books: DEAD PRETTY and BODY HEAT.

Combining forensic work with private investigation and some police procedure, Candy Denman’s books will delight fans of Kendra Elliot and Patricia Cornwell and are a must for serious crime fiction readers.

All of Candy’s books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback from Amazon.

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IMPASSIVE by Ray Clark

A hypnotically good murder mystery… read this and you’ll be spellbound!

DI Stewart Gardener is adding the final touches to his motorbike restoration project when a murder case drops a spanner in the works.

A man has stumbled upon his publisher’s dead body hanging from a rope in Leeds’s Kirkstall Abbey.

Running his business on a shoestring, Max Knowles had racked up debts, though none appeared serious enough to drive him to commit suicide.

DI Gardener’s Major Incident Team quickly establish the man was murdered. Yet finding the killer will prove harder.

As the mental health of a key witness unravels, an enigmatic hypnotist might hold the key to solving the case.

But unless DI Gardener can join up the dots, a cunning stone-faced murderer will slip through his grasp.

IMPASSIVE is the seventh book by Ray Clark in a bestselling series set in Yorkshire. It can be enjoyed on its own or alongside the others. The full list is as follows:

1. IMPURITY
2. IMPERFECTION
3. IMPLANT
4. IMPRESSION
5. IMPOSITION
6. IMPOSTURE
7. IMPASSIVE

These books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback. The previous books are also available as audiobooks from Amazon.

If you like your crime fiction dark, then pick up this noir mystery today!

 

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