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On the Radar: Baldacci is back

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Our unrelenting mission to bring you new crime fiction continues this week, and today we have a mixture of books in different styles and from different nations. We start off by saluting David Baldacci on his latest FBI thriller, Mercy. Then you can choose between…
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A new beginning for David Baldacci

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On the Radar — The American author David Baldacci is starting a new series. The author has already written five series with protagonists ranging from secret agents through to ex pro football players. Now he’s created a profiler, and perhaps this signals a new direction…
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Features

Interview: James Polkinghorn

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Following a career as a litigator and trial lawyer that spanned over 30 years, James Polkinghorn is turning some of his legal experience into crime fiction stories, and the Florida-based author’s debut novel, Liquid Shades of Blue, arrives next week. Inside, a lawyer turned bar…
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On the Radar: Indie crime to the fore

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some huge names releasing their crime novels in the run-up to Christmas. Michael Connelly. Ken Follett. David Baldacci. This week it’s the independent authors who are making a splash here in On the Radar. Small press and self-published…
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On the Radar: Beyond Fear, and more

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Isolation is a major theme in current affairs at the moment and it’s also a theme in two or three of this week’s new books. We lead off with Jaye Ford’s psychological thriller Beyond Fear, which takes us away to into the Australian countryside. But…
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