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On the Radar: A drop of the Irish

19 March, 2021

Scottish crime fiction is booming, Wales is getting its own national crime fiction festival and this week we’re kicking off our news column with a new novel by one of Ireland’s finest and most respected crime authors, Ken Bruen. So it seems as though crime…

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Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari

By RoughJustice

18 March, 2021

Translated by Adrian Nathan West — It’s difficult to know where to begin when discussing this short novel from Argentina. Is it a sharp piece of pulp exploitation? It is certainly full of sex, drugs and violence, and the quotes at the beginning from David…

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First look: Ms Tree – The Cold Dish

By crimefictionlover

16 March, 2021

Correction – this isn’t so much a first look as a first look at a very retro reprint that Titan Comics is pulling off with Hard Case Crime. Ms Tree is a crime comic harking back to 1984, written by Max Allan Collins and with…

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Interview: Peter Swanson

By DeathBecomesHer

16 March, 2021

Former bookseller Peter Swanson is a crime writer who is mighty hard to tie down. He’s a master of the standalone – and the only thing that his seven novels so far have in common is that they all manage to confound and wrong-foot the…

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The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

13 March, 2021

High up in the Swiss Alps perches Le Sommet, a luxury hotel which used to be a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries Switzerland had numerous sanatoria where people with long-term illnesses were sent to recover in the clean, crisp mountain…

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On the Radar: The past will get you

By crimefictionlover

12 March, 2021

A dark deed, a tragedy, the thing best left buried – unresolved secrets from the past that rock the present are a major trope of crime fiction. It rears its head again this week as we feature two of America’s biggest crime and thriller authors…

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A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements

By Catherine Turnbull

10 March, 2021

At the centre of the intrigue in each of Rory Clements’ World War II espionage novels sit true historical events. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde’s task is to step in and save the world from the iron glove of Nazi tyranny. One false move and…

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The Mercenary by Paul Vidich

By Rafe McGregor

10 March, 2021

The Mercenary is the fourth novel in Paul Vidich’s Cold War espionage series featuring CIA officer George Mueller, which began with An Honorable Man in 2016. Vidich appears to be following the lead of his illustrious predecessor in that, like John le Carré’s George Smiley,…

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March 2021

On the Radar: A drop of the Irish

Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari

First look: Ms Tree – The Cold Dish

Interview: Peter Swanson

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

On the Radar: The past will get you

A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements

The Mercenary by Paul Vidich

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