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NTN: Interview with Alastair Gunn

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Feeling a bit cynical about the run-up to Christmas? The constant battering of the eardrums with boughs of holly, the jingle of bells that makes the hair on your neck stand on end because it’s only November still? Alastair Gunn’s debut novel The Advent Killer…
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The PI Case Files - Part 3

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We’re getting deeper into the Crime Fiction Lover filing cabinet. This week, The PI Case Files brings you three more American greats in the genre including the private detective who started it all. Read on as we continue our series looking at the 12 greatest…
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NTN: Five women to watch in 2014

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‘Men are better at crime, women are better at crime fiction,” said PD James, a little tongue-in-cheek, earlier this year. Certainly the wealth and sheer diversity of female writing talent out there gives some credence to her remark. Here we’re going to look at five…
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Interview: Ian Rankin

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Rebus is back! Just a year since the publication of Standing in Another Man’s Grave, the ex-cop’s comeback that had him working in a cold case unit, now Rebus is an Edinburgh detective once again for the latest book, Saints of the Shadow Bible. He…
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WhoWunnit? Christie triumphs in CWA poll

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The result is in! And the 600 authors who are members of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) have given double honours to the Queen of Crime. Agatha Christie has won both the Best Ever Novel and Best Ever Crime Author accolades. At an event at…
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NTN: Interview with CJ Howell

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Last month, indie publishing outfit New Pulp Press released The Last of the Smoking Bartenders by CJ Howell. It’s an intense and incendiary story about a drifter called Tom who’s actually an agent – deep undercover – out to foil a terrorist plot to blow…
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The PI Case Files - Part 2

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Welcome to the second of four articles we’re presenting, in which we’ll tell you about 12 of the best private investigators throughout all of crime fiction. This week’s feature is an all-American showdown taking us from dusty Montana, via gritty Boston, to rusty Detroit. In…
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