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Death Games

by Chris Simms

PoliceFictionFiction, crimeFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
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PoliceFictionFiction, crimeFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, mystery & detective, police proceduralCrime, fiction

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Setting

Manchester (England)

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Chris Simms
Chris Simms

16 Octuber 1969

Chris Simms has worked in airports, nightclubs, post offices and telesales centres. Along with nominations for Crime Writers’ Association Daggers and the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year award, Chris was selected by Waterstones as one of their ’25 authors for the future’. The idea for his debut novel, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7916209W" target="_blank">***Outside the White Lines***</a>, came to him in the early hours of the morning while broken down on the hard shoulder of the M40. His series of DI Spicer novels – psychological thrillers set very firmly in Manchester – follow the police detective’s fortunes as he pursues mad, bad and deadly individuals through the city’…

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Chris Simms

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1

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN

9781541136601

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