Book of the month

Book of the month

British Crime Book of the month – May

Published on Thu, 2014-05-08 08:47
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William Shaw – A Song From Dead Lips is our British Crime Book for the month for May. A crime thriller that reveals gritty sixties London in all its power and prejudice.

Book of the month – May

Published on Thu, 2014-05-08 08:41
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Alice Nutting – Tampa is our book of the month for May. Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought.

British Crime Book of the month – April

Published on Wed, 2014-04-02 13:58
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M. R. C. Kasasian – The Mangle Street Murders is our book of the month for April. Set in a London still haunted by the spectre of the infamous Spring-heeled Jack, The Mangle Street Murders is for those who like their crime original, atmospheric, and very, very funny. 

Book of the month – April

Published on Wed, 2014-04-02 13:49
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Bernardine Evaristo – Mr Loverman is our book of the month for April. French Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney since the sixties. Barrington is a husband, father and grandfather – but he is also secretly homosexual, lovers with his great childhood friend, Morris.

British Crime Book of the month – March

Published on Wed, 2014-03-05 13:24
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James Oswald – The Hangman's Song  (Inspector McLean #3) is our book of the month for March. The body of a man is founding hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force this appears to be a simple suicide case. Days later another body is found. The body is hanging from an identical rope and the noose has been tied using the same knot.Then a third body is found. As McLean digs deeper he descends into a world where the lines of reality are blurred and that the most irrational answers become the only explanations.

Book of the month – March

Published on Wed, 2014-03-05 13:18
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Lea Carpenter – Eleven Days is our book of the month for March. Eleven Days is, at its heart, the story of a mother and a son.It begins in May 2011: Sara's son Jason has been missing for nine days in the aftermath of a special operations forces mission. Out of devotion to him, Sara has made herself knowledgeable about things military, but she knows nothing more about her son's disappearance than the press corps camped out in her driveway.

British Crime Book of the month – February

Published on Sat, 2014-02-08 12:06
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Suzette A. Hill – A Little Murder is our British Crime book of the month for February.   London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle… A host of colourful and comic characters leap from the pages in their hurry to identify the murderer, unravel the mystery of Marcia's life, and discover the importance of all that coal.

Book of the month – February

Published on Sat, 2014-02-08 12:06
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Karen Campbell – This is Where I Am is our book of the month for February. A tender and eye-opening novel about loss and survival, and an unlikely friendship between a Glaswegian widow and a Somali asylum seeker.

Book of the month – January

Published on Wed, 2014-01-01 15:01
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G. Willow Wilson – Alif the Unseen is our book of the month for January. Alif the Unseen is a stunning and propulsive debut novel in which a young Arab hacker is caught up in an adventure for the ages…

British Crime Book of the month – January

Published on Wed, 2014-01-01 14:50
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Sian Busby – A Commonplace Killing is our British Crime book of the month for January. A murder story set in London in 1946, which gradually peels away the veneer of stoicism and respectibility to reveal the dark truths at the heart of post-war austerity Britain.
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