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Get ready for World Book Night

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Monday 23 April has been designated World Book Night 2012 and the charity effort will see 1,000,000 free books given to needy people in the United States, Ireland and Germany. It’s an effort to promote reading and to celebrate some great fiction authors, and a…
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Underground Book Club launches!

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Look out for this man or someone like him if you’re a crime fiction lover who’ll be commuting via London, Oxford or Reading tomorrow morning (16 April). A new venture called Underground Book Club will be handing out their free magazine and inside you’ll find…
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Book Club

Hit and Run

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Driving home from a swanky PR do in Edinburgh with his girlfriend and brother – everyone up to the eyeballs on pilfered narcotics and beetroot schnapps – Billy Blackmore drives through a pedestrian. Reporting it will mean lost jobs, arrest, maybe prison, so they do…
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Book Club

Raylan

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US Marshall Raylan Givens returns in this third in the series from Elmore Leonard featuring the characters in the popular TV show Justified. The book really has three storylines – Raylan finds a man semi-comatose after having his kidneys removed, then must protect an unscrupulous…
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Book Club

What It Was

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Narrated by the Pelecanos character Derek Strange, it all starts with the murder of Bobby Odum and the theft of a ring. Parked outside – a Plymouth Fury, the GT Sport two-door with a V8 inside. The plates read Coco, as in brothel owner Coco…
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Features

Meet us at CrimeFest 2012

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Have you put the dates 24-27 May into your diary yet? If you love crime fiction you should look into it because that’s when top crime fiction authors, aspring new writers and lovers of the genre like us will be converging on Bristol for the…
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KindleReviews

Ishmael Toffee

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Written by Roger Smith — Like Dust Devils and Mixed Blood, Ishmael Toffee sees Roger Smith plucking characters from the different social and racial strata of South Africa and throwing them together in a bleak and harrowing crime story. Released on Kindle, the novella is…
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Features

Milo's crime picks for March

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It’s the first of April and back for his monthly guest column is book loving fiction expert Miles, who runs the blog Milo’s Rambles. Here he takes us through his top crime fiction pickes released over the last month… Guest column — March has been…
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