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Top 20 songs for crime fiction lovers

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Many a contemporary crime fiction novel rocks along to a certain soundtrack – authors often use them to engage the reader a little more and bring in some touch points from modern culture to embellish their twisted plotlines. So we thought we’d put together a…
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Love Story, With Murders

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Last year our contributor David Prestidge raved about Harry Bingham’s Talking to the Dead and, in fact, it was his favourite crime read of 2012. Well, Bingham is back and his new book has a great title – Love Story, With Murder. The lead detective…
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Thorne is back: seeing is believing

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Mark Billingham fans, have you been wondering what happened to his killer-catching cop Tom Thorne? Well, your wait is over because today Little Brown has unveiled the eleventh Thorne thriller, The Dying Hours. You know how much we like our debossed, silver foil and spot-UV…
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The Magpies by Mark Edwards

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There are a few sayings about magpies, those black and white crow-like birds found across the British Isles. One is that they like to ruin other birds’ nests, and eat the eggs. Another is that they steal and hoard shiny things. And lastly, it’s said…
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World Book Night 2013 is coming...

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On 23 April, 20,000 volunteers in the UK and Ireland will be distributing about 500,000 books to people who don’t normally read – we take our hats off to them! World Book Night is a celebration of reading that aims to support the libraries, bookshops,…
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Gems from the Golden Age

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Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L Sayers – just a handful of the best-known names from the Golden Age of crime fiction back in the 1920s and 30s. In those days, detectives had something proper about them, there was a certainness about right…
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