News

Back to Poe land

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On the Radar — The Baltimore area was home to one of the first great crime fiction authors in the form of Edgar Allan Poe, and it’s also home to one of the contemporary greats, Laura Lippman. It’s her latest release, Lady in the Lake,…
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On the Radar: Holmes and Moriarty return

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Yes, two titanic adversaries return this week in the latest novel by Gareth Rubin. Plus there’s a new Dick/Felix Francis novel to gallop away with, a people smuggling spy thriller set in Istanbul, and a novel by Moriarty – just a different one. Oh, and…
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News

On the Radar: In Cold Blood, and more...

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It’s a week full of good news for crime fiction lovers. Here in our news column, we’ve got five new titles for you to try with stories featuring serial killers, missing bodies, kidnappings, old family secrets – all the things that keep you turning the…
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True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

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True Crime Story is Joseph Knox’s fourth novel. It’s his first standalone after three instalments of his urban noir series featuring Detective Constable Aidan Watts of Greater Manchester Police. The ‘true’ in the title and the ‘novel’ in the subtitle immediately establish a tension between…
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Features

Crime tours USA

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Summer’s here and that’s the cue to go on holiday. For crime fiction lovers heading to the US this summer – or already there for that matter – what could be more intriguing than surveying America’s most iconic crime fiction cities by following in the…
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Book Club

Exit Wounds

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Called on to review this lineup of short stories assembled by Paul B Kane and Marie O’Regan, you’d be hard-pressed to pick the best storyteller. Nineteen of the English-speaking world’s leading mystery writers created stories involving some kind of ‘exit’ from a crime situation and…
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