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On the Radar: End of the line for Ruth Galloway?

20 January, 2023

We love it when our news column contains some big names that we know and love alongside new crime authors to introduce to our readers. And that’s how it is this week as we have one of the biggest names in British crime fiction, Elly…

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Danish crime series Grow comes to Channel 4 and Walter Presents

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19 January, 2023

Biker gangs, drugs, guns, cops, infiltrators, murder – get ready for organised crime, Scandinavian style, as the Danish crime show Grow arrives on Channel 4 and on Walter Presents. The first episode will air at 11:30pm on Sunday, 22 January, and you’ll be able to…

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Interview: Katja Ivar

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17 January, 2023

This week sees the release of Trouble, the third book in the Hella Mauzer series by Katja Ivar. Set in 1950s Finland, during the Cold War, the books tell the story of a young police woman and budding detective who cuts against the grain when…

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On the Radar: A novel sense of otherness

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13 January, 2023

If there’s a loose theme tying the five releases we document this week, then perhaps it’s a sense of otherness. It’s a feeling that certainly comes through in latest novels by those American greats Dean Koontz and Bret Easton Ellis, while debutante Charlotte Vassell writes…

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Wilderness versus civilisation in rural noir

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10 January, 2023

Jay A Gertzman, author of Beyond Twisted Sorrow: The Promise of Country Noir, explores some of the archetypes in literature that have helped shape the growing rural noir subgenre… If you care for Westerns, you have read about Shane, the lone rider whose gun frees…

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On the Radar: The Antichrist returns

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6 January, 2023

Welcome to our first new books column of 2023, where we bring you the latest from the rising star of British crime fiction, Janice Hallett. Yes, The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels is coming soon and in its pages the Antichrist returns. Not literally,…

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The most wanted crime novels of 2023

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1 January, 2023

The year 2023 is upon us. With the economy in the doldrums, war in Europe and plenty of uncertainty ahead, if you’re a crime fiction lover at least there will be plenty of opportunity to immerse yourself in a good mystery. Plenty of good books…

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