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Meet the Author: Kate Kaminski

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Based in Maine, Kate Kaminski is an indie filmmaker and also an indie author of crime fiction. With her novel I Am Danvers released in May 2026, she reimagines Mrs Danvers – the creepy housekeeper who was the antagonist in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. The…
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Interview: Philip Swan

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Are you ready for something a little different? We already know that an animal angle is popular in a crime novel. For example, there are the Alsatians Maggie in Robert Crais’s Suspect, and Rex in Pork Pie Pandemonium by Steve Higgs. Now, Sheffield-based author Philip Swan…
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Meet the author: GR Halliday

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Back in 2019, Scottish author GR Halliday entered the world of crime fiction with his debut novel, From the Shadows. Now, it’s 2026, a lucky seven years later, and copies are flying off the shelves. ITV has turned that first DI Monica Kennedy novel into…
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On the Radar: Summer holiday crime fiction

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Is this the summer of the destination thriller? Maybe. Maybe not. Some of the spots you’ll visit literarily in this week’s new books report are a lot more desirable than others. Blackpool is the setting for Mark Billingham’s The Shadow Step. Debatable as a destination….
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Interview: Erlendur Arason

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The tourism boom in Iceland has resulted in all sorts of shiny new hotels popping up in Reykjavik. It seems an unlikely source of inspiration at first, but just think of all the criminal capers that could go on in a hotel. The camera-shy Iceland-based…
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