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JD Robb versus Lynda La Plante...

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On the Radar – This week’s new crime books report sees a face-off between London and New York with two crime novels set in each city. Our radar has picked up on two interesting debut crime stories from both sides of the Atlantic and welcome…
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Classics in September — If you love classic crime fiction like we do, you’re going to enjoy our latest competition, brought to you buy our sponsor Open Road Integrated Media in partnership with MysteriousPress.com. Yes! Here is your chance to win a free ebook of…
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The Vanishing Point

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Written by Val McDermid — OK, it’s confession time. I haven’t read a Val McDermid novel before. However I have read plenty about the author and her work, and been told by my fellow Crime Fiction Lovers that her books are well worth it. So…
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CIS: Deadly Image revisited

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Classics in September -– George Harmon Coxe is largely forgotten now, though his career is emblematic of the development of American crime fiction. Coxe began writing crime fiction for pulp magazines in the Great Depression, one of a raft of writers churning out popular entertainment…
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Dead of Night

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Written by Barbara Nadel — Dead of Night is the 14th book to feature Barbara Nadel’s brilliant and rather fecund Inspector Çetin İkmen, and his suave sidekick Mehmet Süleyman. At this point in the series you might expect any writer to flag a little, but…
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CIS: Meet Me at the Morgue

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Classics in September — Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald — When Crime Fiction Lover announced the Classics in September series, it was a certainty that a Ross Macdonald novel would feature. After all the American writer forms the holy trinity of hardboiled…
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Derby Day

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Written by DJ Taylor — David Taylor is the Norwich-based author of several award-winning autobographies, as well as two quirky and highly original crime novels featuring a down-at-heel chancer called James Ross. At The Chime Of A City Clock and Secondhand Daylight are both set…
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CIS: Sweet Danger

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Classics in September — Sweet Danger by Margery Allingham – Originally published in 1933, Sweet Danger was the fifth book in the Campion series. Allingham first introduced us to her mysterious sleuth in a country house murder mystery entitled The Crime at Black Dudley, back…
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