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About Mean Streets
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: skylark
The Secret Chamber by Patrick Woodhead
A damaged man searching for a missing friend and a successful trouble-shooter investigating a mineral shortage join forces in the Congo’s Ituri Forest in this fast-paced, thought-provoking thriller. Beatrice Makuru, a mining troubleshooter, suspects that recent mine explosions across Africa … Continue reading
The Lost Daughter by Lucretia Grindle
A ‘gripping thriller’ and a ‘heartbreaking romance’; a novel with an identity crisis. The Lost Daughter and I got off on the wrong foot and it all started with the blurb. The thing about a blurb is that it makes … Continue reading
The Wreckage by Michael Robotham
Missing billions in Iraq, a murdered grifter and a missing banker in London, an assassin, a trio of terrorists and shadowy figures pulling all the strings – a complex fast-paced thriller. The Wreckage is Michael Robotham’s seventh book featuring ex-cop … Continue reading
The Burning Wire by Jeffrey Deaver
Part of the Lincoln Rhyme series. A slow-burner but gripping in the end. Quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, NYC detective Amelia Sachs, return in the 9th book of the bestselling series. This time, they are racing against the … Continue reading