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The Killing by David Hewson

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The Killing proved to be a sensation when it appeared on British screens last March. And this despite it being 20 episodes long and broadcast in the original Danish with subtitles. Viewers were captivated. Gleefully we tweeted phrases in Danish. The cult following couldn’t get…
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Stepping back 55 years with Harlan Ellison

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On the radar – As RoughJustice pointed our on our site a week or two ago, plenty of hot new books are being released this summer. Our radar this week has picked up books falling into the categories of something old, something new, and a…
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Free Lawrence Block story on Kindle

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Today only you can download The Ehrengraf Defense by Lawrence Block free on Amazon for your Kindle. The award-winning author is embracing the digital age and re-releasing many of his classics including the Ehrengraf series, which stars his legal eagle character Martin H Ehrengraf. He’s…
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Kill Alex Cross

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Written by James Patterson – James Patterson has proved a polarising presence in crime fiction, and in publishing more generally. Patterson is nothing if not prolific, and churns out novels at a prodigious pace. Last year saw the release of 11 books authored or co-authored…
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A classic revisited: The Little Sister

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Philip Marlowe is one of the definitive hardboiled detectives, with few equals in crime fiction. Nevertheless, The Little Sister is hardly Raymond Chandler’s definitive Marlowe novel. Other novels such as The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye and Farewell, My Lovely are better-known, perhaps because of…
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Silent Valley

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Written by Malla Nunn — International crime fiction sometimes feels like a contest between the Scandinavians and the Irish. If so, the South Africans are closing ground on both of them. Think of writers like Margie Orford, Roger Smith and Mike Nicol, just to name…
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The Ambassador's Wife

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Written by Jake Needham — In the Marriott Hotel, Singapore, a woman’s body is found, horribly mutilated. There are very obvious sexual overtones to her death. Soon, another corpse is found in the seedy Thai sex-tourism resort of Pattaya. The crime scene seems identical to…
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