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Interview: Ken Harris

31 January, 2025

After serving 32 years in the FBI, Ken Harris retired, sat back for a moment or two, and realised he had stories to tell. He wanted to use his experience as an intelligence analyst, but wasn’t interested in all-action hero stories like James Bond. He…

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See You Next Tuesday by Ken Harris

By Vicki Weisfeld

21 July, 2022

Former US FBI agent Ken Harris has brought back his entertaining private investigator Steve Rockfish with young assistant – now partner –Jawnie McGee in this second of a series, following the author’s debut, The Pine Barrens Stratagem, earlier this year. In this novel, Jawnie has…

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The Pine Barrens Stratagem by Ken Harris

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 February, 2022

In Ken Harris’s new thriller, witty and profane private investigator Steve Rockfish tackles a series of long-hidden crimes that powerful forces are determined should stay under wraps. The prologue is a bit over-long, but provides a chilling history lesson. In the early 1940s, the young…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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Thomas Harris returns

By crimefictionlover

10 May, 2019

On the Radar — The American author Thomas Harris has only written five novels but he’s one of the most impactful crime writers of all time. The Hannibal Lecter series – Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising – has been…

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Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

By RoughJustice

3 May, 2014

Charlaine Harris is known as the writer of the Southern Vampire Mysteries which is the basis of the popular TV series True Blood. And the promotional material that came through with Midnight Crossroad does suggest that there is a supernatural element to the mystery. So,…

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On the Radar: Ballads, rituals, ruins and glass houses

By crimefictionlover

24 January, 2025

Our crime fiction radar is tracking five incoming novels that will have you excited – especially if you like books with a unique atmosphere, and enjoy discovering new writers. We lead off with the well-known literary crime author William Boyle and his latest Brooklyn story….

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On the Radar: Crime's young cannibals

By crimefictionlover

1 July, 2022

Some topics are still treated as taboo even in crime fiction, and eating human flesh is one of them. When the taboo is broken, crime fiction lovers tend to remember it – just look at Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, et al by…

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Interview: Ken Harris

See You Next Tuesday by Ken Harris

The Pine Barrens Stratagem by Ken Harris

An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

Thomas Harris returns

Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris

On the Radar: Ballads, rituals, ruins and glass houses

On the Radar: Crime's young cannibals

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