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The crime writing of Jim Kelly

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It’s a winter night in the meeting room of the town library. A handful of local worthies has gathered for the quarterly meet-the-author evening. These sessions can range from spell-binding accounts of traditional Fenland knitting patterns to scholarly memoirs of life as a Cambridgeshire station…
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Night Blind

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Written by Michael W Sherer — On the banks of the River Seine, a priest meets with a discredited French government agent, and hands him a document. Seconds later, the holy man is thrown over the embankment into the swirling waters, his throat cut. Meanwhile,…
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DavidPrestidge: Top five books of 2012

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It’s been a year when self-publishing and the rise of the digital book have made a huge impact on the range of crime fiction available to reviewers and the reading public. Anyone who has the stamina and bloody-mindedness to plan, plot and complete a book can…
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A Drop of Chinese Blood

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Written by James Church — James Church is the nom-de-plume of a writer who served for many years as a diplomat in the Far East. He has written four previous novels set in the region, introducing readers to the cynical and devious North Korean intelligence…
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Creole Belle

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Written by James Lee Burke — This is the 19th book featuring the Louisiana detective Dave ‘Streak’ Robicheux, and it is due for release on 22 November. Many of the previous books have been bestsellers, and the sixth in the series was filmed as In…
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NTN: Malcolm Mackay interviewed

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January will see the release of an interesting sounding first novel by the promising Scottish author Malcolm Mackay. While many writers dream of escaping to a remote location to develop their prose, what’s interesting about Malcolm Mackay is that he was born in the far-flung…
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Killer Move

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Written by Michael Marshall — This is the latest offering from the British-born author whose bestselling first novel The Straw Men, published in 2001, took readers into a frightening vision of small town America. Conspiracy was layered upon conspiracy and nothing was what it seemed….
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The Gingerbread House

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Written by Carin Gerhardson — This book is the first in an intended series of crime thrillers set in the Stockholm district of Hammarby. The publisher and the editing team previously brought us Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Here, Hammarby’s Violent Crimes Unit is headed by…
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