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Murder taken lightly

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On The Radar — Our selection this week starts off rather light-heartedly – if murder can ever be taken lightly – with a novelisation from the American TV series, Monk. But after that we go back in time, get gritty and modern Glasgow, and there’s…
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Events: an Autumn of crime

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If you missed the annual summer pilgrimage to Harrogate for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, fear not. Autumn has a bumper crop of crime author events from bookshop appearances to major festivals. Appropriately for a former rock star (in Norway, that is), Jo…
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W is for... Grafton?

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On the Radar — September usually brings the crime fiction publishers out of their deck chairs and into the sales market, and 2013 is no exception. This week’s report brings you a period witchcraft mystery, drama in the NYPD, a student game that goes badly wrong,…
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When the ink ran hot in Fleet Street

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On the Radar — This week we have a wonderful reprint of a long-lost Golden Age novel, a visionary and deeply scary account of crime and corruption in the heartlands of Argentina, and much more! Hold onto what is left of the halcyon days of…
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Dexter's back for his final cut

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On The Radar — Today fans of the Dexter series can rejoice – the favourite son of the serial killer sub-genre is back. But that’s not all, On the Radar takes us to ancient Rome, Ireland, Singapore and even the Black Country, for Alex Grecian’s…
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Who will be Next to Die?

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On the Radar — From Manchester to Cadiz and from Glasgow to Reykjavik, our keen crime fiction radar is bleeping and blooping like crazy this week. We’ve got everything from pulp mysteries to brutal serial killer stories and even one or two extremely chilly cold…
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