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In the footsteps of Wallander App

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Ever fancied following in the footsteps of Sweden’s finest detective, Kurt Wallander? Well now you can, thanks to a new iPhone and Andriod app from the detective’s creator Henning Mankell. The free app called, rather literally, In The Steps of Kurt Wallander, shows you the…
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Gold Dagger and Man Booker longlists

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The Crime Writers’ Association has unveiled its longlist for the coveted Gold Dagger award as well as naming the contenders for several of its other Daggers for 2011. The Gold longlist covers the following books, authors and publishers: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin…
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One Step Behind

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Written by Henning Mankell — One Step Behind is not Mankell’s most famous nor most commercially successful Wallander novel. For our money, though, it represents both Mankell and Kurt Wallander at their absolute peak. What it lacks in pace and popular verve, it more than…
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My nano Fyction

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Here’s an interesting concept. Twitter afficionado Paul Johnson is championing the idea of writing fiction for the micro-blogging service. A tweet is 140 characters long, and he tries to get a story into that tiny linguistic aperture. He followed Crime Fiction Lover on Twitter, so…
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The top five female crime fiction writers

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Some of the most refreshing plots of the contemporary crime fiction genre are to be found at the pen nibs of female authors. Here we select five of our favourites, and explain why their convention-busting characters have made them must-reads. Patricia Cornwell Cornwell’s Dr Kay…
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