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Forensic mysteries: five of the best

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There’s no denying that forensic science is fascinating in all of its incarnations, a fact made even more obvious by the popularity of television shows such as the CSI franchise, Bones, Dexter, Cold Case, Silent Witness and many others. The human body holds many secrets,…
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The Voss & Edwards treasure hunt

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HarperCollins and authors Louise Voss and Mark Edwards are holding an online treasure hunt across a series of blogs and websites – the main prize is a brand new Kindle Fire. There are also signed books for the runners up. It’s all being done to…
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Grit Lit: An intro to Southern Noir

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The American south is a hot, sticky, vast place with a rich history, spanning all the way from Texas, through to Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and on into North Carolina. Also called the Deep South, this was often used to refer to the seven states that…
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Interview: Robert Wilson

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Those who like their crime fiction set in a hot climate may well have come across the books of Robert Wilson. His Falcón series was set in Seville, and Sky Atlantic have been turning it into a series of films. Meanwhile his Bruce Medway series…
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Crime fiction on the big screen

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Movies inspired by books are not a new thing. Nor is that feeling of: ‘Meh, the book was better.’ It wasn’t quite a Dragon Tattoo year, but even so several big names from the world of crime fiction were committed to the silver screen in…
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Interview: Stuart Neville

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Today sees the release of Stuart Neville’s fourth book, Ratlines. Just as James Ellroy picked at the scab of America’s political upheavals in the 1960s – from the Bay of Pigs to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr, and the Kennedys – in his…
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