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CIS: The Agatha Christie birthday quiz!

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Win a fantastic prize! On 15 September 1890, arguably Britain’s favourite crime fiction writer of all time was born in Torquay, Devon. So, today we’re celebrating the birthday of Agatha Christie. And with it we’ve got a quiz to win a superb illustrated edition of…
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Interview: Jo Nesbo

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Yesterday saw the release of Jo Nesbo’s new novel, Police. With over 20 million books sold, the Norwegian author has become the most sought-after name in Scandinavian crime fiction and Police has been anxiously awaited by fans. The book is the ninth in the Harry…
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Interview: Karen Sandler

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Karen Sandler’s writing career started age nine, with a four-line poem about a pony. Luckily for us, she didn’t stop there. Based in Southern Californian, the mother of two has published 17 successful romance novels, and two books in a YA trilogy. She recently turned…
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Interview: Helen FitzGerald

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Helen Fitzgerald’s latest novel, The Cry, looks set to be one of 2013’s most talked about psychological thrillers. It’s he story of a young couple who suffer every parent’s worst nightmare, the disappearance of their baby. But are Joanna and Alistair as innocent as they…
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CIS: An evening with Ruth Rendell

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Ruth Rendell – or Baroness Rendell of Babergh to use her full title following her Life Peerage in 1997 – is approaching the 50th anniversary of the publication of her debut novel. She’s published a total of 50 novels as Ruth Rendell as well as…
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CIS: Dorothy L Sayers and Fenland

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Dorothy L Sayers was one of the greats of The Golden Age of crime fiction. Her two most celebrated characters, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, inhabit an England that is long dead, and exist in a society whose values, dress and language are museum…
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