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Win a signed copy of Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason

22 August, 2015

Saturday 22 August 2015 — Today only you can win a signed copy of Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason on our Facebook page. The draw ends at midnight Pacific time (US & Canada). This is a brilliant opportunity to own a Nordic noir collectible. Not only that,…

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Crime Scene: the new mag for crime fans

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14 August, 2015

If you’ve got eight of those English pounds burning a hole in your pocket, keep them warm a little longer if you can. On 15 September, there will be a new magazine on the newsstands called Crime Scene and it’s devoted to crime fiction. At £7.99…

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First look: Liar Liar by MJ Arlidge

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8 August, 2015

Penguin wanted to have some fun with its mail-out for the fourth MJ Arlidge novel, Liar Liar. The book arrived in a mysterious box, and was further concealed in a red fire blanket cover. Accompanying it were some sparklers, and two packets of Mystical Fire. If you sprinkle this…

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Five years of Kindle, five great Kindle crime books

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7 August, 2015

There were two little birthdays this week. One was for Crime Fiction Lover. Yes, happy birthday to us, we are four years old. More widely reported, however, has been the fifth birthday of Amazon’s UK Kindle Store. It started off with around 400,000 titles and…

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First look: Rebus is back!

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6 August, 2015

Just a couple of days ago Ian Rankin tweeted to us that his new book was read to go to the printers, but we had no idea it would arrive with us so quickly. So, feast your eyes on the latest Rebus novel, Even Dogs…

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A Hollywood star for Raymond Chandler?

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4 August, 2015

It was Raymond Chandler’s birthday a few weeks ago and Twitter was abuzz with one-liner quotes from the hardboiled crime novels he wrote in the 1930s and 40s. Even today, over 50 years since his death, the author is making an impact on our culture….

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Dark Branches by Nik Frobenius

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2 August, 2015

Translated by Frank Stewart — Nik Frobenius wrote the screenplay for Insomnia, a 1997 film in which a Swedish police detective investigating the murder of young girl in a small town in the far north of Norway begins to lose his grip on reality due…

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First look: new from Finland

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27 July, 2015

You know that we’re crazy about cold climate crime here on Crime Fiction Lover, and in 2013 I was lucky enough not only to visit Finland but to do so just as I was reviewing Antti Tuomainen’s first crime novel The Healer. It was an…

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Win a signed copy of Oblivion by Arnaldur Indridason

Crime Scene: the new mag for crime fans

First look: Liar Liar by MJ Arlidge

Five years of Kindle, five great Kindle crime books

First look: Rebus is back!

A Hollywood star for Raymond Chandler?

Dark Branches by Nik Frobenius

First look: new from Finland

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