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On the Radar: Romanian crime invasion

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As the UK ships Romanian fruit pickers back into the country for this year’s harvest after exiting the EU, more interesting to crime fiction lovers will be a new indie outfit set up to translate Romanian crime novels into English. First on the roster from…
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Book Club

The Bramble and the Rose

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Tom Bouman has penned his third Henry Farrell novel and the cop, based in small-town Pennsylvania, is called out to investigate a headless corpse. It looks like a bear had been eating the man but killing the creature isn’t Farrell’s main worry – it’s the…
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On the Radar: Deadly Durham

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Things get under way with a bang in this week’s new books column as an explosion rips through the English city of Durham in LJ Ross’s latest novel. The Shrine leads off a package of five books, which also include The Girl Beneath the Sea…
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On the Radar: Beyond Fear, and more

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Isolation is a major theme in current affairs at the moment and it’s also a theme in two or three of this week’s new books. We lead off with Jaye Ford’s psychological thriller Beyond Fear, which takes us away to into the Australian countryside. But…
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On the Radar: Messing with your head

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With many parts of the world on lockdown due to Covid-19, reading is one potential escape from the tense situation going on around us. Crime isn’t everyone’s cup of tea at times like this – it can mess with your head – but for crime…
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