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First Look: The Madman by Henning Mankell

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We’ve got some exciting news for fans of Scandinavian crime fiction. On 16 July, Mountain Leopard Press is releasing a lost classic from Mankell’s bibliography – The Madman. We’ve made a video that gives you the lowdown on this fascinating release – a translation of…
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Collateral Death by J Kushley

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Crime fiction is a genre built on familiar tropes: the suspicious death, the damaged investigator, the institution that prefers easy answers over difficult truths. What makes a mystery novel memorable is not whether it uses these conventions but what it does with them. In Collateral…
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Interview: David Fairer

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Originally from Hull and now based in Leeds, David Fairer was a Professor of English at Leeds University before he retired. After a career teaching about some of the greatest novels in the English language he started writing historical mysteries. Now, he’s taken up the…
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On the Radar: Criminal masterminds

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Yes, it’s true. Every book in this week’s roundup features a criminal masterminds of one kind or another, and in three of them we’re talking about proper anti-hero types. We’ve got the latest from Gary Phillips, Saima Mir, Paul D Brazill, Maryann Webb, Douglas Jackson…
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