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Layer Cake
Layer Cake
J.J. Connolly | 2000 | Crime, Film & TV, Humor & Comedy, Law
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The protagonist in this book is an unnamed individual, who is a part of a criminal world in 90ies. He is intelligent, witty and a very intriguing character, and this story is told from his perspective. I enjoyed the wide variety of diverse characters chosen for this novel, and they do seem like proper “geezers”.
  
    King of Diamonds

    King of Diamonds

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    John King, the two-fisted, globe-trotting chief of security for the world's diamond industry,...

A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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Third entry in Simon Scarrow's Criminal Inspector Schenke series, all of which have an unusual setting of being in wartime (WW2) Berlin, with their protagonist a Criminal Investigator member of the German police force (*not* SS).

In this one, it's largely about gang warfare, with CI Schenke and his team (some of whom he has to be very careful around) pulled into the investigation of a murder in Berlin (hence the tile) as Hitler prepares to invade Poland, and finding this murder may be connected to another case they are investigating around forged food coupons.

As before, it's shocking that some of the stuff you read about here - specifically, the with-holding of those (non forged) coupons from the Jewish community - actually happened!
  
Light Shining In The Forest
Light Shining In The Forest
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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The last novel of author Paul Torday is practically a script for the TV series "Criminal Minds" but with an unusual twist. (What a shame we won't have any more of his books in the future.) Read my review of this fascinating crime fiction novel here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2014/02/13/a-glimmer-to-find-what-was-lost/