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On the Radar: Summer holiday crime fiction

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Is this the summer of the destination thriller? Maybe. Maybe not. Some of the spots you’ll visit literarily in this week’s new books report are a lot more desirable than others. Blackpool is the setting for Mark Billingham’s The Shadow Step. Debatable as a destination….
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On the Radar: Criminal masterminds

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Yes, it’s true. Every book in this week’s roundup features a criminal masterminds of one kind or another, and in three of them we’re talking about proper anti-hero types. We’ve got the latest from Gary Phillips, Saima Mir, Paul D Brazill, Maryann Webb, Douglas Jackson…
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On the Radar: Keeping it in the family

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Family values. They’re so important in society, they tell us. They’re important in crime fiction too, for sure. This week we’ve got a mother-daughter investigation, some twins, an uncle-nephew heist duo, a disappeared daughter and even a family pet. Sort of. Does murder run in…
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On the Radar: Botanical noir is a thing!?!

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In Britain, across Canada and the US, all over the Northern Hemisphere flowers are blooming… foliage is flourishing… vines are creeping… plants are proliferating… and in some cases poisons are brewing in their deadly roots. We’d never really thought about it but botanical noir could…
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