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On the Radar: Ms Tree and suspense

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December is here, and while everyone else seems focused on Christmas trees and the holiday season, we’re getting ready for Ms Tree in a new collection from Max Allan Collins. And this week’s On the Radar brings glad tidings of murder and misdeeds aplenty in…
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The 10 best crime shows on Walter Presents in 2024

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If you love watching overseas crime dramas, you’ve come to the right place… Curated by Walter Iuzzolino, Walter Presents is a streaming service featuring shows from all round the world with subtitles for English-speaking viewers. We love it because large proportion of them are crime…
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Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd

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In Gabriel’s Moon, the new espionage thriller by William Boyd, a brief prologue tells how eight-year-old Gabriel Dax experienced the house fire that took his widowed mother’s life and destroyed his childhood home. The firefighters’ verdict that the cause was Gabriel’s moon-shaped and candle-powered nightlight….
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Best crime author of 2024 shortlist

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Crime Fiction Lover readers are discerning people, and they nominated a whole range of authors for this award. Our shortlist brings it down to six who have published excellent novels in 2024. Each is worthy of the Best Crime Author accolade in our 2024 awards,…
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Best crime show of 2024 shortlist

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Just like you, when we’re not reading crime novels, we’re often found watching crime shows on TV. Here on the site we regularly feature new series – in particular, overseas crime shows that don’t get much coverage anywhere else. That hasn’t skewed our shortlists though….
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On the Radar: It's farewell, Peter Diamond

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It’s a bittersweet moment for fans of British police procedurals will as Peter Lovesey’s Bath-based detective Peter Diamond hands in his badge. Plus, our news report brings you murder at a wedding, murder under the Arctic ice, murder in 16th century Italy and a fine-looking…
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Interview: Craig Terlson

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As we saw in Three Minute Hero, reluctant investigator Luke Fischer is a bit of a wayward soul, who has emerged from the Canadian prairies to fight crime across North America – sometimes through the bottom of a beer glass – all described in Craig…
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