 | Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £1.44 If you thought Walter Mosley was good, think again. This is just sublime
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 | Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke
I've enjoyed all of Burke's Robicheaux novels. This is the one that really made me sit up and take notice
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 | The Butcher's Theatre by Jonathan Kellerman
Buy used from: £0.01 Kellerman has got even darker recently - this earlier novel changed location and cross-referred characters from his wife's novel
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 | L. A. Requiem (Elvis Cole Novels) by Robert Crais
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliant. I love the character Elvis Cole but this really brings out his partner Joe Pike
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 | Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery (The Inspector Banks series) by Peter Robinson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.08 I like Robinson's Alan Banks character and its development over the years sleuthing in Yorkshire - an earlier but good one
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 | The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 About as good as a crime novel gets - unforgettable characters and setting of time and place
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 | Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Buy used from: £0.01 A major step-up for Lehane - extraordinary creation of mood
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 | Murder Book by Richard Rayner
Buy used from: £0.01 Under-rated. Remarkable for an Englishman to capture the aura of crime-filled 90's LA
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 | Death by Hollywood by Steven Bochco
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Tremendous - a fabulous sideline to his police precedural TV series'
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 | Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.81 Stephanie Plum, one of the great PI characters. A wonderful series, laugh out loud funny and great, if sometimes unlikely, plotlines
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