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Bernie Gunther's last stand

On the Radar — That sad day will soon be upon. Yes, Philip Kerr’s final Bernie Gunther novel is hitting the shelves soon and it’s set during the topsy turvy days of the Weimar Republic, before the Nazis seized power in Germany. We know Kerr’s…
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Brexit thrillers?

On the Radar — Is a Brexit thriller even possible with blanket media coverage of the UK’s biggest political farce so far this century going on? Well, one or two authors think so and their books are hitting the shelves. This week we’ve got spies,…
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Inborn

Written by Thomas Enger, translated by Kari Dickson — You may already have come across Norwegian author Thomas Enger’s Henning Juul series, about a tortured detective torn apart by the death of his son. With Inborn, the author shows us another dimension of his writing…
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Worst case or best case?

On the Radar — Isn’t it funny? We hate bad news, but as crime fiction lovers sometimes the worst case scenario proves to be the best. That’s why we’re looking forward to Helen FitzGerald’s latest, purely on the basis of the title. We’re pretty sure…
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The curtain drops

On the Radar — How do you like the sound of Brad Parks’ latest, in which an actor is drafted in to go undercover in a prison to eke information out of an inmate? It sounds like a pretty good set-up, but it’s not the…
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