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CIS: The top five women of noir

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Classics in September — Several months ago we discussed five of the best American novelists currently writing in the hardboiled tradition. All of the writers featured in that piece are top-notch crime authors – but they also had something else in common: they were all…
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CIS: Roseanna revisited

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Classics in September – Originally published in 1965, Roseanna was the first of 10 police procedural novels featuring Detective Martin Beck of Sweden’s National Murder Squad. It launched a writing partnership between Maj Sjӧwall and Per Wahlӧӧ that would last until the latter’s premature death…
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Interview: DE Meredith

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When DE Meredith wrote her first novel, Devoured, she offered it to various UK publishers. Set in Victorian London, it introduced us to the earliest CSIs in the form of her sleuths Hatton and Roumande. Yet even though family history, British heritage and Victoriana have…
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WIN! Lady of The Shades by Darren Shan

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Although he’s best known for his young adult horror/fantasy books such as those in the Cirque du Freak and Demonata series, Irish author Darren Shan also enjoys writing crime fiction. His latest, Lady of The Shades, has a strong crime fiction flavour to it, and…
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From Russia with Crime Fiction Lover

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With Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina set to grace cinema screens from 7 September, we thought it might be apt to take a look at crime fiction with a Russian accent. If we asked you to list several Russian crime writers, we’re pretty sure that…
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Interview: Tim Weaver

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Back when we started Crime Ficiton Lover, one of the first books we got in to review was The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver. I wanted to read that one because Tim and I used to work for the same company and I thought it…
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Interview: Chris Ewan

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You’ll probably already know Chris Ewan from his Good Thief’s Guides novels, a light-hearted crime series following the exploits of a globe-trotting gentleman thief. However, his latest work, Safe House, is an altogether murkier affair which proves that when funnymen go dark, they go really…
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Interview: Darren Shan

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Have you ever woken up to find a werewolf gnawing at your foot? It could well happen if you were a character in one of the numerous supernatural and horror-tastic books Darren Shan has written over the last decade or so. The Irish writer –…
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