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Free Laurel Dewey eBook

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Isn’t this great? It’s our first day up and running and one of our readers has already dropped us a line about a free Kindle book. For a limited time only, Laurel Dewey’s Revelations is free to download. The regular price is £3.50 but if…
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A Certain Justice

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Set in the highflying world of London’s law courts, this tense whodunit is James at her unrivalled best. Criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge has made herself many enemies over the years, and when she turns up dead, it is James’ charismatic inspector Adam Dalgliesh who arrives to…
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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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