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Mean Streets is mostly a crime fiction review blog. It's a collaboration between various crime-addicts, many of whom write crime fiction themselves. We welcome your comments and also welcome new reviewers. Either add your comments to a post on the left or get in touch.The Master Criminal
Mean Streets was set up by Harry Bingham, a bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. The first of his new series of crime thrillers will be published summer 2012. He also runs The Writers' Workshop, an editorial agency for writers offering critiques, courses and mentoring.
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Author Archives: Neil Evans
All I did was shoot my man – Walter Mosley
Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man, Harry Tangelo, in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from Rutgers Assurance Corp., whose offices are across the street from where Zella worked. … Continue reading
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Blood Rites – S J Rozan
Lydia Chin is a Chinese American Private investigator with an ‘occasional partner’ by the name of Bill Smith, a loner, ex-soldier. Chin has grown up under the extended influence of Grandfather Gao in China Town, and is delighted to be … Continue reading
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Moonlight Mile – Dennis Lehane
A 16-year old girl has gone missing. a girl with a tragic past. A girl who is concealing secrets. a girl who is remarkably intelligent. And investigator Patrick Kenzie is the man who must face unimaginable drama and danger to find her…… … Continue reading
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The Cold Cold Ground – Adrian McKinty
Spring 1981. Newly promoted and posted to Carrickfergus CID, Detective Sergeant Duffy has hardly had a chance to unpack when he’s landed with two very different cases: what may be Northern Ireland’s first ever serial killer and a young woman’s … Continue reading
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Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Chris Hawk’s daughter has been accused of murder and she look’s as guilty as sin. If Chris is to find out what really happened, he needs to learn everything about his daughter, but he’s beginning … Continue reading
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Truth by Peter Temple
Inspector Steve Villani’s job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. Incapable of constancy as a father and husband, damaged as a son, his life is his work. It is his identity, … Continue reading
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Blood Falls – A Joe Clayton thriller – Tom Bale
Joe Clayton was an undercover police officer in the UK, forced out of his job when a job went badly wrong, separated from his wife and children due to the complexities of the situation and pursued by the brother of a man … Continue reading
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Iron House by John Hart
A complex tale of brotherly love, reunited by necessity two decades after being torn apart by murder and protection Two young orphans, brothers in blood, but different in so many ways, grow up in a brutal institution. Michael, the elder … Continue reading
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