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On the Radar: Protect the child!

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Even in fiction, when pregnant women come under threat our protective instinct kicks in. Writers can use this to their advantage and it’s cropping up a fair bit in crime fiction at the moment. Megan Abbott’s Beware the Woman is a case in point (watch…
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Interview: David Myles Robinson

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Following a 40-year career as a trial lawyer specialising in personal injury law, David Myles Robinson took up his passion – writing legal thrillers. Since 2015, he’s penned four novels in his Pancho McMartin series, about a top criminal defence lawyer and the troubling cases…
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On the Radar: Sean Duffy returns at last!

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Is it just us, or is Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series the most underrated set of novels in the business? The characters. The dialogue. The Northern Ireland setting. The author’s deft way of weaving the Troubles into the wider milieu of late stage colonialism. And…
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On the Radar: Would you kill for me?

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Series or standalone? Standalone or series? Which do you prefer? The reason we ask is that the winner of our Best Author Editor’s Choice Award 2022, Steve Cavanagh, has announced that his next book is a standalone. Will lovers of his Eddie Flynn series be…
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