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Larkey: crime fiction on the Bound app

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Bringing together text, audio, visuals, video and more, smartphone apps offer crime fiction lovers new ways of enjoying their time-tested favourite genre. The latest we’ve picked up on is an app called Bound. Launched last year, it has just added a mystery to its  fiction…
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Five of the best French crime authors

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Who’s the best French crime author? Plenty will probably jump to the name Georges Simenon. Although he was Belgian, he set most of his novels in France and enjoyed a prolific career writing stories about his detective Maigret. They’re even on the telly. Those with…
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It's not Easy, but it's out this week

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On the Radar — The coming week sees the launch of top US author Walter Mosley’s latest detective novel, and the surprise here is that it doesn’t feature his number one star character Easy Rawlins. But that’s OK, because we’re always on the lookout for…
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Twice a ripper

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On the Radar — This week, as well as a mix of settings from Whitechapel via Florida and on to France and Sweden, it also looks like our new crime books offer a blood-dripping combination of murder and mutilation with Jack the Ripper serving as…
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Five of the best German crime shows

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Compared to France, Italy, Spain and the Nordic countries, German crime fiction doesn’t have a big presence in the English-speaking world. The country is better known for its great composers and its philosophers than for its detectives or serial killers. But things are changing, on…
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It's indie crime fiction for us

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On the Radar — Every week is eclectic here on the Crime Fiction Lover news page, but as February 2018 begins we’re dialling it up to 11 with a selection of indie crime novels. From inventive front covers to stories that haven’t had their originality…
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