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On the Radar: The latest from Sweden

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There have been whispers on the north wind that Swedish author Tove Alsterdal’s novel We Know You Remember is one to look out for – especially for fans of Scandinavian crime fiction. So that’s where we start this week’s new books report, before working our…
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Reacher arrives on Amazon Prime

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It’s fair to say that crime fiction lovers were bemused, if not downright offended, by the casting of Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher in the 2012 film adaptation of Lee Child’s iconic character. While he’s a giant of the silver screen, Tom Cruise is nowhere…
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Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski

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American author Marie Rutkoski makes the transition from YA to adult fiction look simple in this hugely satisfying and emotionally fraught thriller about the broken lives caught up in the hunt for a missing dancer and her abductor in turn-of-the-century Illinois. Each chapter in the…
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Quicksilver by Dean Koontz

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After 50 years at his craft and 500 million books sold, Dean Koontz is still setting his own agenda and Quicksilver is an imaginative and thought-provoking read. The author’s energy and enthusiasm are evident, and this is a book that defies expectations throughout. It has…
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On the Radar: Hello again, Marlowe

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Originally created by Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe has inspired legions of hardboiled PIs. His clipped storytelling style is often mimicked but never bettered. So when a skilled author like Joe Ide comes along and writes a novel about the character, we sit up and pay…
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The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

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After exposing the machinations within an amateur dramatics group in her bestselling debut novel The Appeal, Janice Hallett turns her attention to the sinister side of classic children’s literature in The Twyford Code. While Hallett revamped the epistolary novel format with The Appeal by telling…
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