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Larkey: crime fiction on the Bound app

Bringing together text, audio, visuals, video and more, smartphone apps offer crime fiction lovers new ways of enjoying their time-tested favourite genre. The latest we’ve picked up on is an app called Bound. Launched last year, it has just added a mystery to its  fiction…
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Write flash fiction for $500 a pop

Chatting. It’s long been an international pastime, even before the phrase, “More tea, vicar?” was invented. With Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Kik, chat also seems to be the way forward in technology. And that’s where flash fiction – super-short stories – comes into play as…
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Get Lies from The Pigeonhole

If you’re keen on crime fiction, there’s a new way to enjoy it thanks to an app called The Pigeonhole. In the New Year, The Pigeonhole is teaming up with crime fiction authors TM Logan and Megan Miranda with early serialisations of their upcoming novels,…
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Do you fly Underground Airlines?

On the Radar — It’s a truly inspiring week for new releases, with a new novel from Ben H Winters, another from Karin Slaughter, and for lovers of Tartan noir we’ve got the new Malcolm Mackay book as well. Plus, there’s also a treat for anyone…
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iDoyle: A Scandal in Bohemia

Written by Arthur Conan Doyle, developed by iClassics Collection — The enhanced reading experience has never really caught on – not compared to plain old books or Kindle ones – but this production might go some way to addressing that. With atmospheric illustrations, touches of…
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Tastes Like Fear? It is fear!

On the Radar — Sarah Hilary is one of the rising stars of British crime fiction and returns with a new Marnie Rome mystery for us, while CL Taylor’s latest chilling domestic noir lands this week as well. There are also six other very different crime…
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