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Interview: Denise Mina

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Glasgow-born author Denise Mina saw a lot of the world in her early life because her father’s job as an engineer saw the family move 21 times in 18 years. She left school at 16, working in poorly paid jobs until she decided to pursue…
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Interview: Walter Mosley

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Walter Mosley is the internationally acclaimed author of poetry, plays, essays and, most importantly to us, crime fiction. He was born in California in 1952 to an African-American father from Louisiana, and a mother of Russian Jewish extraction. It was his mother who inspired him…
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Interview: Robert Rotstein

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With a background of more than 30 years as an attorney in the entertainment industry, Robert Rotstein has seen a thing or two… Now he’s taken some of that experience, blended in some fictional crime and Hollywood drama, and come up Parker Stern, a lawyer…
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Australian noir: seven of the best

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There have been a few articles recently about noir fiction making a come back. Leaving aside the questions about whether it ever really went away, it does seem to be a great time to be writing in the noir vein, particularly if you live in…
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