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A Dredging in Swann

Tim Garvin

"Sebastian Creek’s shift was going long, involving an interview with a bottle-cut victim at the Spartanville emergency room and now a stop-by at Smitty’s Sportsbar where the fight had gone down."


Dark Video

Peter Church

"xxxx"


The Sweet Indifference of the World

Peter Stamm

"It was when I was at university that I had first started working on fiction, ambitious projects full of deep wis­dom and literary allusions, that no one wanted to read, much less publish."


The Janes

Louisa Luna

"The temperature on cap’s dashboard read 84, but the high dew point was the real killer, the thickness in the air."


No Fixed Line

Dana Stabenow

"The sound of the engine increased to a roar as it passed overhead and then as suddenly ceased."


Naked Came the Florida Man

Tim Dorsey

"xxxx"


The Tenant

Katrine Engberg

"Copenhagen Police investigator Jeppe Kørner splashed water on his face and looked at himself in the mirror on the tiled bathroom wall."


The Decent Inn of Death

Rennie Airth

"At breakfast the following day the Bennetts invited Sinclair to accompany them to church later that morning."


Too Close to Home

Andrew Grant

"I’d known Brett Ellison for almost thirty-three minutes when we reached the service elevator."


The Rabbit Hunter

Lars Kepler

"Sofia makes her way quickly along the wall and past the stairs, until she reaches a narrow closet door."



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