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A gazetteer of British crime: East Anglia

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Oh, you can complain about the weather, the food, the accommodation and the service. Fair enough. Our country has exported everything from stiff upper lips to football hooliganism. But what you can’t complain about in the UK is the sheer variety in its regions and customs….
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Banking on Barclay

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On the Radar — No, not Linwood Barclay. This time we’re talking about Jack Barclay a London cop created by Harry Dunn. Our weekly news page also brings you short stories, the latest in Romanian crime fiction, a delicious-looking cosy, a touch of pulp and…
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Reacher on the prairie

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On the Radar — Ann Cleeves, Anthony Horowitz and Lee Child – three of the UK’s biggest names in crime fiction – all feature this week. Cleeves has written about a moth hunter, Horiwitz about 007 and Lee Child, well, he’s got a new Jack Reacher story…
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A gazetteer of British crime: Scotland

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A sense of place is one of those vital ingredients which can be crucial in a crime fiction novel. Maigret’s rainy Paris suburbs, Marlowe’s neon-lit LA, Harry Hole’s snowy Oslo streets – the locations are inseparable from the characters. Here in Britain we have our own…
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Another cold case for Carl Mørck

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On the Radar — Look out Jo Nesbo, stand aside Camilla Lackberg. The great Dane Jussi Adler-Olsen is coming through with a new Department Q story – The Hanging Girl. It’s hard to believe this is the sixth in the series to be translated into…
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