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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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DIVINE JUSTICE by JOANNE HICHENS
Cape Town’s underbelly gets exposed. And it is rotten! Standing up out of the intestines to make herself noticed is newly licensed PI Rae Valentine, the most junior partner of a dysfunctional Private Investigation business. To try to save the … Continue reading
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The Drop by Michael Connelly
An accomplished police procedural with all the ingredients to satisfy fans of the genre Detective Harry Bosch doesn’t want to retire, but he’s been put on the DROP – the Deferred Retirement Option Plan – and only has three more … Continue reading
Where the Bodies are Buried, by Chris Brookmyre
Slow-burning depiction of Glasgow gangland culture Christopher Brookmyre is moving in a new direction. Or should that be Chris is …? He’s dropped the “topher”, you see. No idea why. Probably because I haven’t asked. Taking a stab, it might … Continue reading