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Meet the author: GR Halliday

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Back in 2019, Scottish author GR Halliday entered the world of crime fiction with his debut novel, From the Shadows. Now, it’s 2026, a lucky seven years later, and copies are flying off the shelves. ITV has turned that first DI Monica Kennedy novel into…
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On the Radar: Summer holiday crime fiction

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Is this the summer of the destination thriller? Maybe. Maybe not. Some of the spots you’ll visit literarily in this week’s new books report are a lot more desirable than others. Blackpool is the setting for Mark Billingham’s The Shadow Step. Debatable as a destination….
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Interview: Erlendur Arason

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The tourism boom in Iceland has resulted in all sorts of shiny new hotels popping up in Reykjavik. It seems an unlikely source of inspiration at first, but just think of all the criminal capers that could go on in a hotel. The camera-shy Iceland-based…
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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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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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