A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy novels and is an ambassador for Wattpad, known as @agatharoza. Entwined is her first novel.

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A. K. Davidson

A. M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

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A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A.J. Cronin

A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

A.N. Wilson

A. T. Emerald lives with her husband and baby daughter in Nottinghamshire. She discovered her love of writing in 2020 and has not shut up about enemies to lovers ever since. She loves iced matcha, torrid love confessions with knives pressed to throats (fictional, of course) and does not accept bills for any therapy her books might incur.

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A.W. Priest

A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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Aabria Iyengar is an American actress and author.

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Aaliya Jaleel is a freelance illustrator, designer, and visual development artist, currently majoring in Animation at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is also the illustrator of Under My Hijab and Muslim Girls Rise. You can visit her online at www.aaliyamj.com.

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Aaron Allston

After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
He has been an ‘agony uncle’ for many years for both CBBC and BBC Radio 1, as well as on television, including BBC Worldwide, BBC 3 and BBC Learning.

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Matthew Frank

Julian Sinclair is a serial killer - charming, manipulative, deadly. He hunted girls for sport, and it's high time justice was served. 
 
But when Sinclair's conviction is thrown out in court, DC Joseph Stark and DS Fran Millhaven find themselves forced to protect the man they're sure is guilty from those who would see him pay in blood. 
 
Then another girl dies. And Sinclair can't have killed her from his hospital bed. 
 
Is a killer lurking inside someone they never suspected? 
 
And have they had the wrong man all along?

The Killer Inside

Gregg Hurwitz

A thrilling new story featuring Gregg Hurwitz's bestselling Orphan X! 
 
Joey Morales was the last recruit of the government's full black operation, the Orphan Program. Trained to be an assassin until she washed out, she was rescued by Evan Smoak, the former agent known as Orphan X. 
 
Now Joey, still a teenager and under the watchful eye of Evan Smoak, lives on her own (with Dog the dog) and attends college. 
 
While on campus, she tries to stop a young woman's suicide attempt - and fails. Then Joey uncovers the reason for Becca Morgan's desperate act - a document called The List, which ranks and rates women around campus based on their sexual appeal and performance. 
 
Determined to find the boys behind The List, the ones whose callous acts drove Becca Morgan to suicide, Joey recruits the help of her mentor, Orphan X, and uses all her skills to uncover and expose the ones responsible. 
Usually working from the shadows, Joey has to put herself on the line and in harm's way this time to not just avenge the dead but to protect the rest of the women who are targets of the hidden cabal behind The List. 
 
Praise for Orphan X 
'OUTSTANDING IN EVERY WAY' LEE CHILD 
'WEAPONS-GRADE THRILLER WRITING' GUARDIAN

The List

Robin Burcell

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new exciting adventure, continuing the bestselling series from UK No. 1 Bestseller Clive Cussler, the Grand Master of Adventure. 
 
The latest action-packed thriller featuring treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 
 
 'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 
 
 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Clive Cussler's The Serpent's Eye

Lucinda Berry

Ella and Bentley are Irish twins - eleven months apart, inseparable since birth. Ella is the golden girl: disciplined, driven, bound for success. Bentley is the screwup: reckless, restless, always one bad choice away from disaster. 
 
Until Ella makes a mistake that can’t be undone. 
 
After a party, Ella gets behind the wheel - and hits someone. Terrified that her future will implode before it begins, she calls the one person she can trust: Bentley. 
 
He’s there in minutes. He sees the body. And he makes a split-second decision that will change their lives. 
 
He tells Ella to go home. 
He takes the blame. 
 
But when someone discovers the truth, their family must make an impossible choice: protect their brilliant daughter? Or save the son whose future has always teetered on the brink...

The Golden Child

Conn Iggulden

A ROMAN SLAVE HAS FURTHER TO FALL THAN MOST . . . 
 
AD 46. The Roman Republic has become a true empire, stretching from Egypt to the seacoast of Gaul. Sixty million people live under its rule: slaves, citizens, nobleman and emperors alike.

Prince of Rome

Robert Lassen

Operation Afterlight

Ragnar Jónasson

As snow blankets Reykjavík and Christmas approaches, young detective Helgi is looking forward to a quiet holiday - until those plans are torn away in a flash. One month after his girlfriend Aníta is killed in a car accident, he returns to work, haunted by loss and rage. The driver - Helgi's ex-girlfriend Bergþóra, a violent alcoholic whose abuse he kept secret - insists Aníta's death was an accident and walks free. To escape his mounting despair, Helgi throws himself into the unsolved disappearance of his predecessor, Hulda, a retired officer long presumed dead. But as he follows the traces she left behind, the lines between her past and his present begin to blur . . . 
 
When Bergþóra is later found lifeless in her bath, suspicion falls squarely on Helgi. With his own colleagues turning against him, he must uncover the truth if he is to clear his name, make it home for Christmas, and finally turn the page to begin again.

The Body in the Bath

Katie Lumsden

December 1883. Inventor and millionaire Sir Russell Morgan has invited his friends and investors to celebrate Christmas at Clifftop House. But when a footman is found dead – electrocuted – on the very first night of the party, festivities are thrown to the wind. The police dismiss Fred’s death as an accident, but his friend Millie, the kitchenmaid, is not so sure. 
Who would have wanted to kill Fred? Did he know a secret about the Morgan family? Or about Sir Russell’s guests? 
Christmas Day comes, and with it another dead body. 
Can the killer be caught before they strike again?

The Christmas Tree Murders

Jørn Lier Horst

Detective William Wisting has spent years solving the cases that others can’t. 
 
But when his daughter, Line, unearths information about the little-known past of Adrian Stiller – Wisting’s replacement as head of the Cold Case Unit – including the mysterious disappearance of Stiller’s high school sweetheart, Wisting trusts Line to follow the trail. 
 
Wisting is looking forward to taking a step back. When his former boss dies, however, Wisting suspects foul play was involved. Particularly when a link to Stiller and another cold case emerges… 
 
As secrets come to light, new and old threads intertwine – and at the centre of it all stands Wisting, who alongside his daughter, must solve one last case.

The Last Case

Stephanie Wrobel

Revenge Plot

Matthew Aldrich

Paul Whitmore, the world’s richest man and Silicon Valley's Ponce-de-Leon, is 122 years old, but looks fifty. Thanks to the Method, his proprietary anti-aging protocol, he’s ready to share the secret to Eternal Life with the world . . . for a price. But not everyone wants Paul to succeed, and these shadowy forces are prepared to use violence to keep the Method from coming to market. 
 
When a new threat targets his estranged son Max, an 85-year-old nursing home resident who wants nothing to do with him, Paul brings Max to his compound for protection. As enemies close in and secrets unravel, Paul must face the one challenge he never planned for: fatherhood, and caring for his ageing son. Is it ever too late to reconnect, or to become the parent you never were? 
 
As the date of the Method's release draws closer and the walls close in, Paul's true enemies make themselves known. The pawns corner the king, leaving Paul to make an impossible choice . . .

The Natural Order

Alys Cummings

PRE-ORDER NOW! A PUZZLING NEW MURDER MYSTERY WHERE CRIME AND CROSSWORDS COLLIDE, FOR FANS OF JANICE HALLETT AND LUDWIG 
 
The dead body is their first clue - and the answer is murder...but can they solve the crossword, and find a killer too? 
 
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Nina is a promising young journalist. She’s also an alcoholic. 
 
Once a week, she attends a recovery group in the local church hall. When a stranger walks in one night, the group think they might have a new member. Until he promptly drops dead. 
 
The police believe it’s nothing more than an accident. But the group soon realise there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye, when they discover a cryptic crossword clue hidden in the dead man’s pocket – the answer to which is Murder. 
 
As more mysterious and threatening clues start appearing in the local paper’s crossword, Nina and team must work to crack this cryptic case. Can they solve the clues, and catch a killer? 
 
Or will the next crosssword spell death for one of them… 
 
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Murder Most Cryptic

James E. Mack

There's a traitor - a high-level Russian asset known as NOMAD - embedded deep in the heart of British intelligence. Whoever they are, they're playing a game only the dead understand . . . 
 
 
When a British Special Forces team vanishes on a deniable mission inside the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, retired intelligence office Brock is drawn into investigate. Uncovering whispers of a traitor in British ranks, Brock teams up with an off-the-books SBS unit, REDKNIFE, to unmask the threat. But as reports of further failed British Military operations emerge it’s clear there’s more at stake than revenge. The dots connect across Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Britain and beyond, but all leads point to one man: Lawrence Taylor. 
 
 
But when Taylor is shot dead by his own wife, MI5 officer Anna, during a covert operation in Dubrovnik, the threat - and the truth - doesn't die with him. NOMAD is still out there: waiting, watching. And it seems Anna's secrets run deeper than anyone suspects . . . 
 
 
Previously self-published, Mack’s thrillers have had over 5,000 reader reviews with an average of 4.7 stars. ’Customers find this book captivating from start to finish' sums up Amazon’s Rufus.

The Kill Chain

Charlie Higson

Le Chiffre. Dr No. Goldfinger. James Bond has faced them all. But now the world is changing, and even 007 has no idea what’s coming for him… 
It starts with a murdered agent in the Saudi desert. 
Only a traitor could have known enough to bring him down. 
But even James Bond can’t guess at the secret that was worth killing him to keep. 
As Bond follows the trail across the globe, he doesn’t realise the countdown has already begun. 
And hiding in the shadows is a man with more power than he could ever have imagined. 
Prepare for a villain unlike any before. 
 Prepare for KING ZERO.

King Zero

Josh Winning

Bastian may be a vampire, but he doesn’t bite—anymore. He’s just trying to live his best undead life: sightseeing through Italy with his magical talking cat, Whitby, and maybe flirting with a cute boy or two. 
 
Then a body turns up on the beach, seemingly drained by a vampire. It wasn’t Bastian. He swears—on his own grave. But the local police chief isn’t convinced and assigns the infuriatingly handsome detective Nico De Luca to watch him until his trial. 
 
With the Vampire Council on their way and more victims appearing, Bastian, Whitby, and Nico must unmask the real killer before the whole town is gone—fangs, flirting, and all.

Be Still My Unbeating Heart

C. J. Tudor

Welcome to Serenity Falls – the idyllic town where crime is non-existent. The perfect fresh start for Dan and his daughter Sadie as they escape their troubled past in the UK. 
Until a dead body turns up in their swimming pool. 
And that’s just the start of a series of odd discoveries that include abandoned houses and very strange activity. 
As Serenity Falls plans its fiftieth anniversary, something is stirring beneath the surface of the idyllic façade. Is it really the perfect town? Or is it founded on something far darker? And how far will people go to keep its secrets?

Serenity Falls

Mike Maden

From the outside, The Oregon is a rustling hunk of junk. But beneath the ships decaying exterior lurks a state-of-the-art vessel equipped with a uniquely effective array of weaponry. It's manned by the charismatic Juan Cabrillo, chair of the US government sponsored organisation 'The Corporation'. Aided by his crew of mercenaries, Cabrillo takes the Oregon on missions that the law can't handle, dealing justice to villains who threaten chaos on a global scale.

The Oregon. From the outside, the ship is a rusting hunk of junk. But beneath that decaying exterior lurks a state-of-the art vessel equipped with a uniquely effective array of weaponry. And it’s manned by the charismatic Juan Cabrillo, chair of the US government sponsored organisation ‘The Corporation’. Aided by his crew of mercenaries, Cabrillo takes the Oregon on missions that the law can’t handle, dealing justice to villains who threaten chaos on a global scale.

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Liane Moriarty

Available to pre-order - the upcoming book from #1 bestselling author and international phenomenon Liane Moriarty. More details to follow . . .

Big Little Truths

Jessica Bull

Jane Austen is preparing for the summer season. 
 
As guests of their wealthy relatives Mr and Mrs Leigh-Perrot, Jane and her sister Cassandra will be holidaying in Bath Spa – the world-famous health resort, and more importantly, the epicentre of the marriage mart. 
 
For many, the summer will be spent hunting husbands. But for Jane, when a series of murders take place across the city, she must chase down a killer instead. 
 
With her beloved sister by her side, Jane is determined to bring the murderer to justice. Can she stop this villain from taking any more victims, before the summer ends? Or will her only dance of the season be with death…

Pride, Prejudice and Peril

Simon Conway

A veteran American spymaster weaving an elaborate web. 
A politician who makes a high-stakes promise he can’t keep. 
A clutch of sophisticated air defence missiles stolen in Ukraine. 
A terrorist cell with plans to commit an outrage in the US capital. 
And, at the centre of it all, a British agent, operating alone and undercover, on a desperate, globe-trotting mission to prevent catastrophe. She cannot fail . . .

The British Agent

K. L. Slater

Emily is ready to leave the lies behind. With a beautiful new home and money in the bank, her partner Oliver promises their life as con artists is over. Orchard Lane seems perfect — friendly neighbours, quiet dinners, a fresh start.But something isn’t right. Unsettling messages arrive. Emily feels watched. Oliver starts acting strangely.As paranoia grows and secrets resurface, murder strikes the street. And Emily realises there’s only one thing she knows for certain about her husband:He’s a very good liar.

We Tell Lies

Alex Dekker

After a catastrophic deployment that left most of his team dead or injured, Nathan Wilde has said his goodbyes to the life of the Green Beret. He is now seeking the quiet life, dedicating himself to his academic passion for history and archaeology—but his hero days are far from over. Nathan’s attempt to lead a normal existence is soon threatened by his remarkable discovery of the lost civilisation of Ubar. Catapulted onto the world stage, Nate attracts more than just academic acclaim—mysterious forces are at play, leading to missing friends, summons from world leaders, and conscription back into the military. 
 
Knowing he’s going back into harm’s way, Nate turns to the only men left alive that he truly trusts: his group of tight knit former teammates—a motley crew of expertly trained warriors, to help him navigate the challenges ahead, as well as the demons of his past. Finding themselves hunted by a former Spetsnaz soldier who works for a shadowy organization and chased through the desert by al Qaeda terrorists, the former commandos must utilise their skills in a race to discover whether the city truly exists, as well as uncover a deeper geopolitical mystery that will have resounding ramifications around the world.

The Desert Heist

Kate Riordan

It’s been years since Rain went home. 
To many, growing up on the Tanglewood estate, nestled in a beautiful corner of the Cotswolds countryside, seemed like a dream. 
But for Rain, memories of her childhood there are forever tainted by what happened that summer. The wild party. The body… 
Now estranged from her mother, and all ties to Tanglewood, Rain thought she’d moved on. 
Yet when another dead body is found at Tanglewood, she knows she must face her past. 
Rain has long held suspicions that what happened that summer wasn’t an accident. It was murder. 
And now's her chance to prove it.

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive

Gytha Lodge

A teenager at an idyllic Greek holiday resort is shocked to receive an anonymous message. It claims to be from a kidnapped girl, trapped with a family that’s pretending to be her own. 
 
Detective Amanda Coton just happens to be at the resort on holiday. She’s in the perfect position to help lead the rescue. 
 
But with no way to identify the sender, or to lock down the sprawling resort, one wrong move could see the real victim spirited away, and vanish for good. 
 
And that’s without worrying that the kind of person who’d kidnap a girl wouldn’t hesitate to kill to get away with it…

Please Help Me

Chris Chibnall

The new gripping mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Death at the White Hart

The Parkwood Murders

S.M. Govett

Laura’s a good mother. 
Between her messy divorce with her ex-husband, and moving in with her new fiancé, her son Benjy has been her constant. 
But now that they’re settled, Laura is excited to throw herself back into work. 
Being a mother is fulfilling, but Laura has always felt that writing is her true calling. Her ultimate escape. 
Until that fateful day. The afternoon starts like any other. Laura picks Benjy up from school, then heads upstairs to write. 
It’s not until the sun is setting that she realises the house is quiet. Too quiet. 
It’s not until she sees the footprints in the garden that she knows something is terribly wrong. 
One set is undeniably Benjy’s. It’s the other set that strikes fear in her heart – those of an adult. 
Someone who took her son, right from under her nose…

When You Looked Away

Bea Fitzgerald

Nadine Heywood is determined to be the best actress in the world.Getting into London’s top drama school is just the first step. But there, Nadine comes head-to-head with Harper Moore. Beautiful, brilliant, effortlessly charming, she is everything Nadine isn’t. And immediately Nadine sees her as more than just her competition.As their worlds collide against the glitz of Hollywood, they can no longer keep their rivalry private. Splashed over the tabloids, Harper and Nadine are the public’s favourite celebrity feud. 
 
But as the stakes get higher, they start to realise there is more to their passionate hate than meets the eye…

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Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

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