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The Meating Room by TF Muir

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11 September, 2014

St Andrews is headquarters of the Royal and Ancient and the home of golf. Obviously, it is a sedate, peaceful place where the only sound to be heard is the smacking of golf balls and the occasional muttered curse from someone stuck in a bunker….

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The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

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9 September, 2014

Have you ever had to step into someone else’s shoes? It’s tough trying to equal, or better, what came before, isn’t it? And when that someone else is the undisputed queen of crime, the legendary Dame Agatha Christie, then you would surely have to be…

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CIS: The perfect Poirot primer

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6 September, 2014

Name three famous Belgians… A tough ask, I know, and one that may tax your little grey cells. Wait! There’s a clue! And as a lover of crime fiction, you’ll surely have used it to come up with the world’s number one Belgian. That’s right…

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Falling Fast by Neil Broadfoot

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22 August, 2014

This debut novel was recently shortlisted for the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year alongside the likes of Peter May, Louise Welsh and Chris Brookmyre. In that company, it certainly has a lot to live up to. No problems there, for Falling Fast is…

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The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson

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5 August, 2014

We first met DCI Billy McCartney in 2013, in The Killing Pool, which I picked as my top book of that year here on CFL. Now he’s back in a story that straddles a gap of almost a quarter of a century. The action begins…

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A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton

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29 July, 2014

That there London. It has featured in films, telly shows, songs and, of course, crime novels. But whether you see the place as a bustling metropolis or smelly, overpriced and somewhere south of Watford Gap, I doubt you’ve ever given much thought to the possibility…

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The Visitors

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25 July, 2014

Written by Simon Sylvester — Prepare to be haunted, entranced and intrigued by a debut novel that is anything but run of the mill. Set on the fictional Scottish isle of Bancree, The Visitors is a heady mix of myth and modern life, with a…

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Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black

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22 July, 2014

He is probably best known as the author of the acclaimed Gus Dury thrillers, set in the mean streets of Edinburgh, but Tony Black has turned his sights to a much less likely setting for Artefacts of the Dead. That setting is the sleepy seaside…

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The Meating Room by TF Muir

The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah

CIS: The perfect Poirot primer

Falling Fast by Neil Broadfoot

The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson

A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton

The Visitors

Artefacts of the Dead by Tony Black

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