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Gold Dagger and Man Booker longlists

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The Crime Writers’ Association has unveiled its longlist for the coveted Gold Dagger award as well as naming the contenders for several of its other Daggers for 2011. The Gold longlist covers the following books, authors and publishers: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin…
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My nano Fyction

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Here’s an interesting concept. Twitter afficionado Paul Johnson is championing the idea of writing fiction for the micro-blogging service. A tweet is 140 characters long, and he tries to get a story into that tiny linguistic aperture. He followed Crime Fiction Lover on Twitter, so…
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Catch Your Death

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Written by Louise Voss and Mark Edwards — After I finished reading this book using the Kindle app on my iPad, I tweeted that it left me cold. That’s probably more of a ‘chirp’ than a ‘tweet’ and co-author Mark Edwards pulled me up for the…
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The Snowman

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Hailing Nesbo as the new Stieg Larsson, the sticker on the cover does this Norwegian writer something of a disservice. He’s a skilled scribe in his own right and presents his plotlines and characters – in this case Oslo detective Harry Hole and the serial…
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