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Alex Smith

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Alex Smith wrote his first book when he was six. It wasn’t particularly good, but it did have some supernatural monsters in it. His latest books, the DCI Robert Kett thrillers, have monsters in them too, although these monsters are very human, and all the more terrifying for it. In between these two books he has published twelve other novels for children and teenagers under his full name, Alexander Gordon Smith—including the number one bestselling series Escape From Furnace, which is loved by millions of readers worldwide and which is soon to become a motion picture. He lives in Norwich with his wife and three young daughters.

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Average rating: 4.46 · 100,075 ratings · 3,648 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	Paper Girls (DCI Kett, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 13,226 ratings — published 2019 — 19 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
	Three Little Pigs (DCI Kett #3) 4.46 avg rating — 10,056 ratings — published 2020 — 10 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
	Bad Dog (DCI Kett #2) 4.32 avg rating — 8,452 ratings — published 2019 — 13 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
	Whip Crack (DCI Kett #4) 4.47 avg rating — 7,607 ratings — published 2020 — 9 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
	Stone Cold Dead (DCI Kett, #6) 4.51 avg rating — 6,230 ratings — published 2021	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
	Jaw Breaker (DCI Kett #9) 4.52 avg rating — 5,643 ratings — published 2022 — 3 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
	Knock Knock (DCI Kett #10) 4.57 avg rating — 5,097 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Every Mother's Son (DCI Kett #7) 4.51 avg rating — 4,840 ratings — published 2021	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
	Run Rabbit Run (DCI Kett, #5) 4.46 avg rating — 4,513 ratings — published 2020 — 9 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
	Sweet Briar Rose (DCI Kett #8) 4.57 avg rating — 4,155 ratings — published 2021 — 3 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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“You think it’s simple, because the death is the stone, and you just have to follow the ripples back to where it started. But then you have two deaths, two stones, two places where the ripples radiate from. The more people you add, the more people you talk to, the more complicated it gets. You’re basically throwing a fistful of gravel into the pond and trying to make sense of it.”
― Alex Smith, Unholy Saints

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“If you kill your wife, you don’t concoct a tall tale about somebody locking you in a van and making you fight to the death. You do it discretely, you hide the body, you claim innocence.”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly

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“Of course I didn’t. Why do we settle? Why do we think we’re not worth something more, eh? One life we get here, one chance at happiness, and how many of us spend it with somebody we don’t love? Somebody we don’t even like? It’s madness. Is he dead?”
― Alex Smith, Truly Madly Deadly

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December 2022 Poll

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Which Crime, Mystery, or Thriller would you like to read in December?

The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

32 votes, 27.1%

Paper Girls by Alex Smith

27 votes, 22.9%

Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery by Agatha Christie

20 votes, 16.9%

Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark

15 votes, 12.7%

Dark Pines by Will Dean

14 votes, 11.9%

Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah

10 votes, 8.5%

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