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CIS: My classics by Ruth Ware

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Take one hen party containing some women with very different personalities, add in varying degrees of closeness and inclusivity, layer with a few dark secrets, and you have author Ruth Ware’s debut novel In a Dark, Dark Wood which came out earlier this year. The tagline…
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First look: Tennison by Lynda La Plante

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Jane Tennison is back! Well, she’s back in a reverse back-to-the-future sort of way… Lynda La Plante has written a prequel to her Prime Suspect TV series, and in it DCI Tennison is merely WPC Tennison, fresh out of college, and learning about being a copper the…
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First look: Crime Scene magazine

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Look what just arrived. It’s the first issue of the new quarterly magazine, Crime Scene, complete with a severe-looking Benedict Cumberbatch on the glossy front cover. It’s on the newsstand now in the UK at £7.99, or you can buy a copy online here. It’s…
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Interview: Val McDermid

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Val McDermid is something of a media personality these days, often popping up on TV and radio. She was even asked about writing an opera recently on BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions. But it is her crime writing that has garnered a legion of fans who snap up…
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CIS: A classic revisited - Vertigo

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While an Alfred Hitchcock adaptation was always a coup for any author, ultimately the master’s movie tended to overshadow the book – and that is certainly the case with Vertigo (1958). Hitchcock’s psychological thriller is now recognised as one of the best films of the…
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A gazetteer of British crime: East Anglia

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Oh, you can complain about the weather, the food, the accommodation and the service. Fair enough. Our country has exported everything from stiff upper lips to football hooliganism. But what you can’t complain about in the UK is the sheer variety in its regions and customs….
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