Book Club

Norwegian by Night

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Another gloomy Scandinavian angst-fest? Well, hold on now… For starters, the author’s name – Derek B Miller – doesn’t seem very Nordic at all. Yes, the book is set in Oslo, but there is a major difference. For starters, the central character is an 82…
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Features

Interview: Phil Rickman

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Phil Rickman is probably best known for his Merrily Watkins series. Set in Herefordshire and the Welsh borders they feature Merrily Watkins, the attractive, widowed vicar of Ledwardine. However, Merrily isn’t your average country vicar. She’s trained in exorcism or, to use the modern euphemism,…
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News

Grisham and McNab, Reloaded too

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On the Radar — The coming weeks will see the release of John Grisham’s latest, in which he returns to the setting of one of his greatest books. Also on the way is a dark WWII psychological mystery, a short story anthology, and the latest…
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Gimme Shelter by Rob Gittins

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The Murder Squad in the Welsh capital city of Cardiff have a big problem. A psychopathic Ukranian vice baron is creating havoc among his rivals, and taking his anger out on the prostitutes who have been unwise enough to upset him. When Tyra decides she…
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Features

Happy Birthday, Colin Dexter

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Once in a generation comes a writer whose words translate into film and television so successfully that the books and the novels become indivisible. Those of us who read Colin Dexter’s Morse novels from the beginning, in 1975,  may have had our own imaginings of…
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We've missed you, Val McDermid

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On the Radar — In contrast to last week’s magnificent seven books by crime fiction heavyweights, this week sees a mixture of debuts from younger writers and new offerings from veterans of the scene. Susan Hill, Val McDermid and Wilbur Smith, for example, have published…
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