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	Black Water Rising 4.02 avg rating — 247 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Off Dead 4.55 avg rating — 44 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Off Dead: An unmissable Liverpool-set police procedural novel from a rising star in crime thriller fiction (DCI de Silva Crime Thrillers Book 2) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Water Rising: A tense and gripping Liverpool crime thriller (DCI de Silva Crime Thrillers Book 1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 12 by Cameron Stewart (Goodreads Author), Cherise Saywell, S. Bhattacharya-Woodward 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Better off Dead: DCI de Silva Crime Thrillers, Book 2 by Sean Watkin (Goodreads Author), Jane Hamlet (Narrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

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Sean Watkin rated a book it was amazing Better off Dead: DCI de Silva Crime Thrillers, Book 2 by Sean Watkin (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sean Watkin made a comment on Courtney Collins’s review of Black Water Rising " Thanks for this honest feedback. You’re bang on the money, this novel was definitely written for people looking for a little bit more than the standar ...more "
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Sean Watkin rated a book it was amazing Unsolved (Cal Lovett Files, #1) by Heather Critchlow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I Loved-ett! This was my introduction to Critchlow's work and wow what an introduction it was. This novel really made me want to go and research the hypothesis: "Women write better crime fiction than men." Cal Lovett is a man struggling to come to term ...more
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Sean Watkin rated a book it was amazing Unburied (Cal Lovett Files #2) by Heather Critchlow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I came to this because of my adoration of Unsolved (book 1), and I was not disappointed. Critchlow's work has such a great sense of work, and I felt like I was right there with Cal. Dialogue is strong and each character's voice is unique to them, add ...more
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Sean Watkin rated a book it was amazing The Troubled Deep (Cam Killick Norfolk Mysteries) by Rob Parker (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's great to catch a book where you feel like you're in safe hands, and that's very much how I felt while reading The Troubled Deep. Parker has created a wonderfully complex protagonist in Cam Killick (even his name sounds brilliant), a man living w ...more
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It's great to catch a book where you feel like you're in safe hands, and that's very much how I felt while reading The Troubled Deep. Parker has created a wonderfully complex protagonist in Cam Killick (even his name sounds brilliant), a man living w ...more
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