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Ask a Policeman returns...

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On the Radar – Last week we featured a good selection of American authors in our books news, but today we have honour Team GB and their medal-tastic achievements. This week’s collection of new and forthcoming crime fiction from our sceptre’d isle includes a collaboration…
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Only One Life

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Written by Sara Blaedel – Last autumn Danish crime writer Sara Blaedel made her English language debut with the fourth book in her Louise Rick series, Call Me Princess. In this novel, we met Louise and her homicide investigation team, Unit A. They were on…
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Team USA leads the charge

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On the radar – With the Olympics in full swing this week our books radar readout is spiking with three authors from gold-medal-winning Team USA… although we’ve yet to bring you any Chinese crime fiction gold! But first we’ll stop in Poland where there’s been…
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Features

London 2012: Five Olympic books of death

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With the final preparations for London 2012 nearing completion – and all those confusing flags being sorted out – we thought it might be fun to take a look at this global sporting occasion from a darker angle. So if you’re likely to be need…
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Like a Bat out of Harrogate

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On the radar – The cream of crime fiction literati have drifted home from Harrogate but our radar this week has certainly been picking up some residual energy from the Yorkshire town’s Crime Fiction Festival last weekend. Kicking things off is this year’s festival programming…
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Meet the Paddington Bear of crime fiction

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On the radar – This week our radar has gone into overdrive detecting an interesting mix of crime fiction from both sides of the pond, including a crime fighting teddy bear! Yes, I did say teddy and no I’m not completely mad. Here at CFL,…
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Holiday in Cambodia? The latest new crime releases...

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On the radar — The world’s favourite sleuth, Sherlock Holmes is back in a mystery where he’ll take on a character created by another literary heavyweight. This time he’s up against Dr Moreau. But these great characters haven’t been handled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…
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It's dagger time! Six 2012 winners announced

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The Crime Writers’ Association announced the winners of six of its prestigious daggers at an award ceremony that took place last night in London. They included – The Dagger in the Library, The Non-Fiction Dagger, The Debut Dagger, The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, The International…
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