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Missing In Rangoon

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Written by Christopher G Moore — For well over 20 years Canadian lawyer turned crime writer Christopher G Moore has chronicled change in Thailand and the surrounding region through the character of Bangkok-based American private investigator, Vincent Calvino. Moore has penned 13 Calvino books. Most…
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Australian noir: seven of the best

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There have been a few articles recently about noir fiction making a come back. Leaving aside the questions about whether it ever really went away, it does seem to be a great time to be writing in the noir vein, particularly if you live in…
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Dead Sea

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Written by Sam Lopez — Luke manages a recording studio in a seedy part of London. After intervening one night to stop a particularly brutal mugging, he meets the victim’s daughter, Tara. He has dinner with her, they end up in bed, and before you…
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PulpCurry: Top five books of 2012

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It’s been a great year for crime fiction and trying to narrow the books I have read down to a top five is not easy. Before I get onto that, however, as has been my past practice I’m going to cheat and hand out a…
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Nearly Nowhere

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Written by Summer Brenner — It might not be the best known publisher on the block, but California-based PM Press has delivered some solid hits with the Switchblade crime series. Benjamin Whitmer’s Pike was an absorbing, bleak read about a reformed hustler and drug trafficker…
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NTN: Five great new crime writers from Down Under

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With its growing, multi-cultural cities, dusty Outback and prison colony heritage, Australia provides a rich setting for crime fiction. All kinds of talented authors have been nurtured there and each year the country celebrates the best with its Ned Kelly Awards. Here, as part of…
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Wake in Fright

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Written by Kenneth Cook — Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. But while it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel…
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