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James Ellroy's This Storm, and more...

On the Radar — Brace yourself, crime-writing and linguistic hurricane James Ellroy is back with a wartime thriller featuring the cop you love to hate, Dudley Smith. But if you don’t fancy LA as your next destination we’ve got plenty more including Amsterdam, and a…
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New James Ellroy out today!

On the Radar — There are some big beasts trampling around in the crime fiction jungle this week. If we flag up the names Ellroy, Kellerman, Coben and Mosse, that should be enough to persuade most readers to raid their wallets, but we also have…
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On the Radar: Botanical noir is a thing!?!

In Britain, across Canada and the US, all over the Northern Hemisphere flowers are blooming… foliage is flourishing… vines are creeping… plants are proliferating… and in some cases poisons are brewing in their deadly roots. We’d never really thought about it but botanical noir could…
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Meet the author: Clifford Beal

Clifford Beal has been an author nearly 20 years and has dabbled across genres. In fact, his first novel was about 18th century pirates. Now, he’s written his first crime novel and it’s little different to most of the other new releases at the moment….
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Interview: Michael Katz Krefeld

Known across Denmark for his best-selling crime novels, Michael Katz Krefeld can now be read in English with the recent translation of Darkness Calls, published in May 2023. The book features Cecilie Mars, a cop who doesn’t always live on the right side of the…
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One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips

1963. Los Angeles. America is supposed to be desegregated but the racism is still there and for many, society remains psychologically segregated. Nevertheless, LA is a city full of opportunities for Americans of all colours, religions and political persuasions. There’s a lot happening here and…
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