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On the Radar: Would you kill for me?

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Series or standalone? Standalone or series? Which do you prefer? The reason we ask is that the winner of our Best Author Editor’s Choice Award 2022, Steve Cavanagh, has announced that his next book is a standalone. Will lovers of his Eddie Flynn series be…
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On the Radar: Her next job is in cyber

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From the Monkeewrench series to Millennium and on to today’s techno thrillers, we love it when new technologies quickly evolve into new kinds of crime and new ways of catching crooks. At the moment, this subgenre seems to be surging forward with crypto currency, the…
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On the Radar: Do your penance

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Considered to be the one to watch in UK fiction thanks to her literary debut, Boy Parts, it’s exciting to see that English author Eliza Clark has turned her compass towards crime fiction. Her second novel, Penance, satirises the ongoing fascination with true crime and……
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On the Radar: Ambrose Parry, you say?

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Lovers of historical crime fiction can get ready for a treat as Ambrose Parry, the time travelling pen name of Chris Brookmyre and his partner Maria Haetzman, serves up an 1853 Edinburgh mystery with echoes of the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare. There seems to be…
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On the Radar: New books for June

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Just like last week, we’re starting our column with a book in the rural noir category and author Chris Offutt has become a favourite in the sub-genre. His third Mick Hardin novel is out on 13 June. We have crime in translation from Switzerland with…
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