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Westside Saints

W.M. Akers

"On a night of hard frost, in the ruins of a burnt church, I found a body in the snow."


Strong from the Heart

Jon Land

"As the famed song played in the single bud still wedged inside an ear, Tom Santiago found himself baking beneath a sun that had risen hours ago, long before his postal rounds brought him to the town of Camino Pass."


Between Two Evils

Eva Dolan

"Ferreira was sitting on the bonnet of his car, rolling a cigarette, when Zigic emerged from number 4, and it took him a few minutes further to extricate himself from Ainsworth’s neighbour and his accomplice of a cat, which kept winding between his feet in a figure of eight."


Shakespeare for Squirrels

Christopher Moore

"Well, death was a darkling dollop of dog wank."


The Goodbye Man

Jeffrey Deaver

"'Why should I talk to you?' the man scoffed."


The Wife Stalker

Liv Constantine

"The morning after the clearly-not-business dinner, I knew I had to take some kind of action, but I was having trouble coming up with a next step that didn’t make me seem like a jealous shrew."


The Girl Beneath the Sea

Andrew Mayne

"Something else is in the water."


The Law of Lines

Hye-young Pyun

"At Ki-jeong’s mother’s house, the door to her sister’s room was always closed."


“Barroom Butterfly”

Barry Gifford

"Roy’s grandfather subscribed to several magazines, among them Time, Field & Stream, Sport, and Reader’s Digest, but the one that interested Roy most was San Francisco Bay Crime Monthly."


Death on Tuckernuck

Francine Mathews

"He hadn’t expected Ash that Saturday morning, hurrying down the weathered wooden pier in her rope-soled wedges and skinny jeans, a slouchy silk sweater slipping down to reveal one perfect shoulder."



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