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Our post-Harrogate 2024 reading list...

By DeathBecomesHer

25 July, 2024

Every year, the Yorkshire town of Harrogate hosts one of the UK’s biggest book events – the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Whether you were there this year or followed proceedings from afar, it’s clear that books were the heroes. We try our best…

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Harrogate 2024 Report: Crime fiction is HOT this summer

By DeathBecomesHer

21 July, 2024

Sub-tropical temperatures brought fans of both kinds out in force at this year’s record-breaking Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2024 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, which ran from Thursday 18 July to Sunday 21 July. On Friday morning and early afternoon, savvy publishers were handing…

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Dead Fall by AK Turner

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17 July, 2024

It’s no surprise that the majority of crime fiction books have a dead person in them – but not many feature a protagonist who has a special affinity with the recently deceased. Step forward Cassie Raven, the star of her own series of which Dead…

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Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary

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7 July, 2024

Since bringing her award-winning police procedural series featuring DI Marnie Rome to an end, English author Sarah Hilary has turned her attention to writing standalone works, like last year’s Black Thorn which won a five star review on this site. This is a writer who…

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The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

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5 June, 2024

The world of crime fiction is a broad church, featuring everything from snooping grannies in sleepy rural hamlets to blood spattered serial killers, and everything in between. At the darkest end of that spectrum comes Chris Carter, whose Robert Hunter series is definitely not for…

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June is National Crime Reading Month

By DeathBecomesHer

31 May, 2024

We crime fiction lovers know that every day offers a reading opportunity, but June is National Crime Reading Month (NCRM) in Britain – a festival of reading hosted by the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) in partnership with The Reading Agency for 2024. The aim is…

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Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett

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20 May, 2024

Some book titles are enigmatic, leaving you puzzling until a clue as to their meaning perhaps appears at an unexpected moment; others make no sense at all, even after you’ve turned the final page. Then there are those that lay it out, pure and simple…

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The Alone Time by Elle Marr

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30 April, 2024

Plane crashes make fertile ground for crime fiction authors. The drama! The unpredictability! One of my favourites is Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton – although strictly speaking that was a hot air balloon, rather than an aircraft. It came out seven years ago and…

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Our post-Harrogate 2024 reading list...

Harrogate 2024 Report: Crime fiction is HOT this summer

Dead Fall by AK Turner

Sharp Glass by Sarah Hilary

The Death Watcher by Chris Carter

June is National Crime Reading Month

Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett

The Alone Time by Elle Marr

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