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Crime in the Heat by Catherine Moloney

By DeathBecomesHer

2 May, 2020

Crime double acts, we all love ’em, from Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to, in more recent times, Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw and Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard. It’s that meeting of minds, yin and yang that creates such…

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On the Radar: Meet Hammerhead Jed

By crimefictionlover

1 May, 2020

Today in our new books column we’re going to lighten the mood with two titles that take themselves far less seriously than most of the fare on our site. AJ Devlin has set a novel in the world of roller derby with an ex pro…

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Cancelled crime fiction festivals go online

By Catherine Turnbull

30 April, 2020

With much of the world on lockdown due to Covid-19, many crime fiction festivals have cancelled this year’s events. Instead, some are offering crime fiction lovers the opportunity to join virtual festivals online and interact with authors at live events and book launches, or watch…

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The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 April, 2020

The third RG Belsky crime thriller to feature harried Channel 10 news director Clare Carlson, The Last Scoop puts our heroine in the middle of both a puzzling murder story and the potential exposé of New York political shenanigans (spoiler alert: money is involved). Each…

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Man of the World by Paul D Brazill

By crimefictionlover

28 April, 2020

Brit grit author Paul D Brazill follows his 2018 novella Last Year’s Man with a return to Seatown, where we pick up the continuing story of hitman Tommy Bennett. Perched somewhere on the Northeast coast, Seatown is cold, wet and windy, the kind of place…

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They come from a land downunder: 13 Australian crime writers to try

By crimefictionlover

27 April, 2020

Today we’re joined by Craig Sisterson, author of Southern Cross Crime, a new guidebook to Australian and New Zealand crime writing. Craig has previously pointed us towards some terrific Kiwi storytellers, and now it’s time to discover more of what Australia has to offer… What do you…

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Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

By nagaisayonara

25 April, 2020

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend away for Jodie and her three friends, time away from their children, their husbands, their jobs, their whole lives back in the city. But it didn’t take long before everything started going wrong for Jodie and the…

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On the Radar: Romanian crime invasion

By crimefictionlover

24 April, 2020

As the UK ships Romanian fruit pickers back into the country for this year’s harvest after exiting the EU, more interesting to crime fiction lovers will be a new indie outfit set up to translate Romanian crime novels into English. First on the roster from…

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Crime in the Heat by Catherine Moloney

On the Radar: Meet Hammerhead Jed

Cancelled crime fiction festivals go online

The Last Scoop by RG Belsky

Man of the World by Paul D Brazill

They come from a land downunder: 13 Australian crime writers to try

Beyond Fear by Jaye Ford

On the Radar: Romanian crime invasion

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