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Skinjob by Bruce McCabe

By nagaisayonara

18 August, 2014

The scariest thing about dystopias – worlds which are defined by totalitarianism and dehumanisation – is how closely they resemble our own. The scariest aspect of novels such as George Orwell’s 1984 is not the strangeness of the worlds they represent, but their familiarity. Readers…

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The Eagle Turns by James Green

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19 July, 2014

In my mind there are two types of spies: those who know everything and those who know nothing. Jean-François Mercier in Alan Furst’s The Spies of Warsaw is an example of the former, as is John le Carré’s George Smiley, while examples of the latter…

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Present Darkness by Malla Gunn

By nagaisayonara

27 June, 2014

Present Darkness is the fourth installment in Malla Nunn’s series of novels starring Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper. The cover – a picture of two rhinos ambling across a dry plain – could be a South African tourism advertisement, except for the grey clouds and burnt…

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Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

By nagaisayonara

16 June, 2014

Written by CS Boag — The Case of the Horses for Corpses is the third in CS Boag’s Mister Rainbow series, a collection about a classic hardboiled PI living in modern day Sydney. Mister Rainbow (or Rain for short) is a down-and-out private eye in…

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World Cup Special - The beautiful game in crime fiction

By nagaisayonara

14 June, 2014

In case you missed it, the World Cup kicked off this week. It’s that time every four years when it seems that everyone, no matter what their day job or what colour flag they wave, sits down to watch football for an entire month. All…

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Borderline by Lawrence Block

By nagaisayonara

5 June, 2014

If you’re not familiar with Lawrence Block’s work – and you should be, we’ve reviewed a whole stack of it here at Crime Fiction Lover – all I can say is be prepared. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. The four stories in this collection…

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Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai by Michael Wreford

By nagaisayonara

31 May, 2014

Plenty of spy and espionage stories focus on Europe and Russia, set mainly between the 1930s and the 1970s, when borders were stricter, and the flow of information across them was mainly in the form of papers lining the false bottoms of suitcases. Agent Ai…

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Straight Jacket by Adrian Deans

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13 May, 2014

I’m an advocate of judging a book by its cover. When you’re walking through a bookstore, or even browsing on Amazon, a simple, intriguing cover, a good blurb and a couple of choice quotes can really make a book stand out. Straight Jacket by Adrian…

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Skinjob by Bruce McCabe

The Eagle Turns by James Green

Present Darkness by Malla Gunn

Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Horses for Corpses

World Cup Special - The beautiful game in crime fiction

Borderline by Lawrence Block

Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai by Michael Wreford

Straight Jacket by Adrian Deans

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