 | Panicking Ralph (Harpur & Iles) by Bill James
Buy used from: £0.01 Like indie bands, the best are the ones other people haven't heard of.
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 | Swag by Elmore Leonard
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.96 Just pick any book he has written. Even the Westerns. I've yet to read a bad one
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 | Death Is Now My Neighbour (Inspector Morse) by Colin Dexter
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Written with warmth, humour and style, Morse is my favourite character in crime.
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 | A Morning for Flamingos by James Lee Burke
Buy used from: £0.92 Hard as nails plots and characters masked by eloquent prose.
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 | The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.35 The only books more believable are the true crime he writes.
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 | Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 I was a big fan of his earlier stuff.
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 | The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.94 Can make James Ellroy seem like Enid Blyton.
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 | The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 American noir at its peak, he hasn't written anything better.
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 | Devil in a Blue Dress (Five star) by Walter Mosley
Buy used from: £4.64 Fantastic novel, although I later became tired of Mosley's work.
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 | A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
Buy used from: £0.01 A break from American and British crime in Portugal.
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