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Crime fiction on Android tablets

13 September, 2011

For those technophobes out there, Android tablets are nothing like Aspirin and don’t really involve robots either. Android’s the mobile operating system that many cell phones use these days, and just like Apple’s iOS has transferred from the iPhone to the iPad, many tablet computers…

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Destination South Korea

By crimefictionlover

11 September, 2011

Location, location, location. An interesting setting is a key constituent in a good crime novel, and since we started Crime Fiction Lover our reading has taken us to all kinds of places. We visited Ystad, Edinburgh and Miami a few weeks ago when we talked…

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The Killer is Dying by James Sallis

By crimefictionlover

7 September, 2011

Written by James Sallis — Although this book is set in Pheonix, Arizona, it’s by no means hot and fiesty crime fiction. There are no chases, gunfights or shadowy figures jumping out from behind doors to bash the hero in the face. In fact, the…

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Get The Score - free eBook!

By crimefictionlover

3 September, 2011

Did you know that the University of Chicago Press gives out a free eBook every month?Their September give-away is great news for fans of crime fiction – you can download the digital version of The Score, by Donald E Westlake (writing here as Richard Stark)….

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Dregs by Jørn Lier Horst

By crimefictionlover

1 September, 2011

One of the first publishers to get in touch when we set up Crime Fiction Lover was Sandstone Press, a Scottish imprint that’s introducing new writers in various genres including crime. Needless to say, when they offered us a book by the Norwegian author Jørn…

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Watch the trailer for Dregs

By crimefictionlover

23 August, 2011

One of the books we’re busy preparing a review for is the English language debut of Norwegian author Jørn Lier Horst. Dregs follows detective William Wisting as he tries to work out where a severed left foot, washed up on the beach near the town…

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Spriteby joins our team

By crimefictionlover

22 August, 2011

Today we welcome a new reviewer – Spriteby – to our panel. It should not surprise you to learn that she’s a lover of crime fiction, but Spriteby’s personal tastes in the genre mean we’ll be covering some new ground. “I read mostly historical crime,”…

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Kindle Cloud Reader - upon closer inspection

By crimefictionlover

21 August, 2011

As we reported during the week, Amazon has released a new app called the Kindle Cloud Reader, which works across a range of devices. It brings you Kindle on the iPad, or an Android tablet. It works on Macs and PCs with Chrome or Safari…

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Crime fiction on Android tablets

Destination South Korea

The Killer is Dying by James Sallis

Get The Score - free eBook!

Dregs by Jørn Lier Horst

Watch the trailer for Dregs

Spriteby joins our team

Kindle Cloud Reader - upon closer inspection

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