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Interview: SJ Watson talks about his new book Final Cut

31 August, 2020

SJ Watson’s first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, became a phenomenal international success selling over six million copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year, and has been translated…

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Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

By Vicki Weisfeld

23 August, 2020

Right from the title, you know the stately Yorkshire family home Mortmain Hall will play a pivotal role in this classic mystery. The legal doctrine of mortmain, after all, refers to owners’ attempts to control the fate of their property after their death. As you…

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Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler

By Catherine Turnbull

22 August, 2020

Nursery rhymes, as we all know, often have disturbing and violent messages. The old London rhyme Oranges and Lemons is no exception. When the speaker of the House of Commons Michael Claremont is badly injured under a delivery of citrus fruit near St Clement’s Church,…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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A classic revisited: Layer Cake by JJ Connolly

By crimefictionlover

20 August, 2020

With Duckworth Press issuing a 20th anniversary edition of Layer Cake, we asked Brit Grit expert Paul D Brazill to slice it up for us… “You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher,…

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One Eye Open by Paul Finch

By RoughJustice

20 August, 2020

Paul Finch’s latest novel is a standalone thriller, but like his bestselling Heck series, One Eye Open is a police procedural. On the face of it, the traffic police might not seem the most promising division to write a thriller in, but Finch has once…

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On the Radar: It's a big week for new crime fiction book releases

By crimefictionlover

20 August, 2020

Soon summer will be shutting down and when September comes publishers like to fire their big guns. That’s what we’ve got in our new books column this week, folks – a salvo of big names continuing their big series including Steve Cavanagh, Nicci French and…

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French mystery show Beyond Appearances comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

19 August, 2020

There’s the fast action of Paris in Spiral and the melancholy wistfulness of Normandy in the wonderful Witnesses. But with Beyond Appearances you’ll discover a French crime show that feels similar to an English country house mystery, with rural France a twist all of its…

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August 2020

Interview: SJ Watson talks about his new book Final Cut

Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards

Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler

An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

A classic revisited: Layer Cake by JJ Connolly

One Eye Open by Paul Finch

On the Radar: It's a big week for new crime fiction book releases

French mystery show Beyond Appearances comes to Walter Presents

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