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FREE ebook: The Pineville Heist

15 January, 2012

Yesterday we brought you our review of The Pineville Heist, an action-packed crime book for young adults about a teenage boy called Aaron Stevens who gets mixed up in a bank robbery. The author Lee Chambers has dropped us a line to let us know…

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The Pineville Heist

By crimefictionlover

14 January, 2012

Written by Lee Chambers — The Canadian author of this book originally created the Pineville Heist as a screenplay, and the story’s not just been turned by him into a novel but it’s also being made for the big screen. We don’t often look at…

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy competition winners

By crimefictionlover

14 January, 2012

Normally our site is all about the best crime books out there, but when the good folks at Focus Features got in touch about the release of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy offering fine prizes if we’d run a competition with them, we couldn’t resist. So…

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Interview: new Victorian crime author Kate Williams

By crimefictionlover

9 January, 2012

You might recognise author Kate Williams. She took part in the TV coverage of the Royal Wedding in 2011, working for the BBC. She’s also appeared with Caroline Quentin on Restoration Home, and worked on the BBC Timewatch documentary the Young Victoria. Her non-fiction books…

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The Cold Cold Ground

By crimefictionlover

8 January, 2012

Northern Ireland, 1981. The police have plenty to deal with as nationalists riot in the streets, hunger strikes in full swing. So when a gay man is found with a bullet in his skull and one of his hands cut off, on the surface it…

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Mercy

By crimefictionlover

8 January, 2012

Mercy unfolds like a police procedural but has an urgent, thrilling edge to it thanks to Adler-Olsen’s great storytelling. He sets up cliff-hangers with poise, pulling you on through the chapters even though for long periods detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad are investigating…

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Vengeance, Italian style

By crimefictionlover

8 January, 2012

A week or two ago we brought you a review of one of the classics of Italian crime fiction, That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, written 65 years ago. If stories set in Italia in the 1930s take your fancy, then keep an eye…

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Competition: Invent a spy and WIN

By crimefictionlover

6 January, 2012

We don’t normally cover much espionage here at Crime Fiction Lover, otherwise we’d be called Spy Fiction Lover. (Hey… now there’s an idea.) But when Focus Features got in touch about the US release of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – the motion picture adaptation of…

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FREE ebook: The Pineville Heist

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy competition winners

Interview: new Victorian crime author Kate Williams

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Vengeance, Italian style

Competition: Invent a spy and WIN

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