Features

Interview: Roger Gibson

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Titan Books has won the rights to publish writer Roger Gibson (foreground, above) and artist Vince Danks’ Harker series of graphic novels. Harker:The Book of Soloman collects the first series of monthly comics – where the fictional detective Harker is the main character – in…
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Features

Milo's crime picks for July

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Back once again, our guest columnist Miles of the wonderful book blog Milo’s Rambles. Every month he joins us with the top reads he’s discovered over the last 30 days. July was rainy. The Olympics got underway. And here are the crime books Miles is…
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KindlePrintReviews

Rush of Blood

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Written by Mark Billingham — Florida. The budget beach resort of Pelican Palms. Three couples from suburban London become acquainted while taking an Easter break. Amidst the Pina Coladas, oversized meal portions and sunburn, and on the eve of their departure, the teenage daughter of…
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PrintReviews

Champagne: The Farewell

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Written by Janet Hubbard — Max Maguire, a tall, leggy, no-nonsense detective with the NYPD, is the daughter of a philosopher-cop father and a French mother. She’s looking forward to the wedding of her best friend from college, Chloé, in the Champagne region of France….
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Interview: Alison Bruce

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Before stunning us with her DC Gary Goodhew series of crime fiction novels, Alison Bruce used to write history books such as Cambridgeshire Murders and Billington: Victorian Executioner. A touch macabre perhaps, but also a perfect source of inspiration for her later creations. Her most…
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KindlePrintReviews

Fireproof

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Written by Alex Kava —  A down-and-out former accountant returns to his cardboard box home in an industrial unit on the edge of Washington DC. He is furious to find that there is someone else in his space. His anger turns to horror when he…
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A Private Venus

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Written by Giorgio Scerbanenco – Giorgio Scerbanenco was an important figure in postwar Italian crime fiction, but is little known to English-speaking audiences because his novels were never translated into English. Hersilia Press is seeking to rectify our ignorance of Scerbanenco and other Italian crime…
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Book Club

Dare Me

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“At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something – anything – to begin. There’s something dangerous about the…
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