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On the Radar: Life's a beach...

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…and then you read crime fiction! This week our news column starts off on a beach in the South of France for a crime story with a different pace and tone to many. French author Marion Brunet captures the characters, scenes and situations in a…
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1979 by Val McDermid

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What constitutes a historical crime novel? That’s something I mused upon while reading this book, the first in a new series from the queen of crime, Val McDermid, featuring journalist Allison ‘Allie’ Burns. Unsurprisingly, it is set in… 1979. But that’s only a handful of…
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On the Radar: The Year of the Assassin

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According to the Chinese and Japanese zodiac, 2022 is the year of the tiger. In the crime fiction zodiac, we think it should be the year of the assassin. On 29 July, Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel Bullet Train will appear in its silver screen…
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Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

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Sarah Vaughan has been on the Crime Fiction Lover radar before, her intelligently written, precisely plotted thrillers making reviewers sit up and pay attention. Back in 2018 we took a look at Anatomy of a Scandal, part psychological thriller, part courtroom drama, with an MP…
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