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How Can I Help You by Laura Sims 

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You’ll want to be wary of who asks you this question at Carlyle Library. This may be a leafy small town in America, apparently quiet and uneventful, but things are not quite how they seem. Laura Sims’s second novel follows Looker, about a woman’s descent…
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On the Radar: A mountain awakes

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There is always something new to discover in the crime fiction genre, and that’s why we love it so much. As well as a very unusual sort of crime novel set in Iceland, which is where we start off this week, we’ve got a legal…
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Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

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Sometimes, it seems, magnetic north has a pull that is more than just ionic. For Swiss crime fiction author Joachim B Schmidt, this was certainly the case and after falling in love with the place as a teenager he emigrated there in 2007. It’s where…
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On the Radar: Hap and Leonard return

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It’s been five years since we last saw Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, but at last Texan author Joe R Lansdale is back with his unique blend of grit and whimsy. We reckon the series will have gained fans since it was adapted for television,…
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Broiler by Eli Cranor

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The broiler is a breed of chicken favoured by the American poultry industry for its flesh. If you’re hatched a broiler, you’re dead meat, and the sense of fatalism hinted at in the title is something that will certainly cast its shadow across the narrative…
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