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On the Radar: Inside number 10?

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Times of turmoil and insecurity call for books. And more books. Crime books. And lots of them. We love debut novels, and we know cosy crime fiction is huge at the moment, so we’re going to start our report with a book that fits the…
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On the Radar: Friends, killers and secrets

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The publishing schedule gets busy in March and our first news report of the month has five interesting novels to entice you. We get the ball rolling with Patrick Hoffman’s Friends Helping Friends – what a great title. We’ve also got crime fiction from Switzerland…
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On the Radar: Son and heir

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How do you feel about writing collaborations? Today we bring you news of a partnership between the French novelist Johana Gustawsson and her Norwegian counterpart Thomas Enger. Together they’ve created Son, our lead book. It’ll be an interesting read, alongside a debut by Kate Kemp,…
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Interview: CJ Box

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Although the Joe Pickett series can feel a bit like a Western, with the dramatic mountains of Wyoming its constant backdrop, it really has all the crime fiction credentials you could wish for. The very first book, Open Season, won the Anthony, Mcavity, Gumshoe and…
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Small Fires by Ronnie Turner

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Folk horror. Gothic thriller. Crime novel, a bit, maybe. You can’t readily pigeonhole Small Fires, but what you can say is that this is a remarkable work of the imagination. Just as the likes of William Blake and JRR Tolkien envisaged strange, distant realms and…
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