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Richmond turns to crime

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If you’re a crime fiction lover and live in south west London or can easily get there, it might be worth putting 1 November into your diary. The opening evening of the Richmond Literature Festival this year will be dedicated to the genre, with a…
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Modesty Blaise is back

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The 1960s crime-fighting icon Modesty Blaise is making her return as this December BBC Radio 4 will be serialising the Peter O’Donnell novel A Taste for Death. Daphne Alexander will be voicing the character in a story that sees Blaise and her partner facing up…
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The Daggers 2012

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Who would you give a crime writing dagger to this year? Last night Grosvenor House in London hosted a dinner and awards ceremony for The Crime Writers’ Association and the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, which saw the awarding of three of the CWA’s prestigious…
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WIN Killer Move by Michael Marshall

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On the lookout for a thriller that will keep you gripped from page one? Michael Marshall is the author behind Killer Move, released this month as a paperback by Orion. To celebrate, the publisher is offering readers of Crime Fiction Lover the chance to win…
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Ian Rankin to headline at Melbourne

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Here’s a little bulletin for our readers down under… Get yourself over to the Crime and Justice Festival hosted in Melbourne 16-18 November, and you’ll have the chance to hear star crime author Ian Rankin speak. The festival will be celebrating 25 years since the…
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I Hate Hockey

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Written by François Barcelo, translated by Peter McCambridge — The National Hockey League season was supposed to begin last week. However the puck won’t be dropping, teeth won’t be loosened, and nobody’s getting slammed into the boards just yet. A dispute is raging over revenue,…
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The Bat

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Written by Jo Nesbo, translated by Don Bartlett — Did you read the last Harry Hole book, Phantom? If you did you’ll know that the character’s future is a little ambiguous. We’re not going to spoil things, but it’s no surprise that here, instead of…
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WIN Harlan Coben's Seconds Away

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American author Harlan Coben has a true talent for penning page-turning crime thrillers. Here on Crime Fiction Lover a couple of our favourites include the standalone novels Just One Look and Tell No One, which featured one of the baddest badman found in the genre…
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