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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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WIN Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

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Looking for some hot summer action? Enter our summer reading competition and you could lay your hands on the latest action thriller by Matthew Reilly, Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves. Scarecrow is the codename for a crack team led by an ex-marine called Schofield,…
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Interview: Mel Sherratt

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Mel Sherratt’s debut novel, Taunting The Dead, was a bolt-from-the-blue Kindle bestseller which proved that some self-published authors are more than capable of mixing it with the big girls. Comparisons to Martina Cole are frequently made and thoroughly deserved – Mel writes dark, sexy stuff,…
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Interview: Roger Gibson

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Titan Books has won the rights to publish writer Roger Gibson (foreground, above) and artist Vince Danks’ Harker series of graphic novels. Harker:The Book of Soloman collects the first series of monthly comics – where the fictional detective Harker is the main character – in…
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