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On the Radar: Crime fiction is no laughing matter...

26 March, 2021

Or maybe it is. It hardly ever happens, but all the crime novels here in our new books column this week come with a pinch of humour. Whether you’re riding the Bullet Train with a bunch of psychos in the latest crime novel from Japan,…

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The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

By crimefictionlover

26 March, 2021

Crime fiction protagonists don’t need to blow the doors off like Jack Reacher, or come with brilliant minds and complex issues like just about half the detectives you can name. As Robert Goddard proves with The Fine Art of Invisible Detection, they can be utterly…

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The rise of Welsh crime fiction

By Paul Burke

26 March, 2021

With Wales’ first international crime writing festival approaching, it’s time to discover the burgeoning community of crime writers in the principality. Wales is not just a country of song, rugby and coal, it’s a land of crime stories – books, TV and film. We all…

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The Source by Sarah Sultoon

By DeathBecomesHer

23 March, 2021

Former CNN journalist Sarah Sultoon has won awards for covering major stories across the globe. But in her first foray into crime fiction writing she sticks closer to home, with a tale centred firmly in the British establishment that’s set in the late 20th century…

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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 March, 2021

Kate Quinn’s engrossing new espionage thriller takes place in two time periods. Most of it happens in December 1939, when three young women converge on Bletchley Park. They’ve been recruited for jobs that haven’t been well-defined—though we readers know the challenges they’ll face—and arrive displaying…

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On the Radar: A drop of the Irish

By crimefictionlover

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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On the Radar: Crime fiction is no laughing matter...

The Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert Goddard

The rise of Welsh crime fiction

The Source by Sarah Sultoon

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

On the Radar: A drop of the Irish

Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari

First look: Ms Tree – The Cold Dish

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