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Like a Bat out of Harrogate

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On the radar – The cream of crime fiction literati have drifted home from Harrogate but our radar this week has certainly been picking up some residual energy from the Yorkshire town’s Crime Fiction Festival last weekend. Kicking things off is this year’s festival programming…
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Look who's writing for us VIII

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Time for some news on the Crime Fiction Lover team. We’re pleased to announce the arrival of two new writers for our site – Lucy Conlon and Sandra Mangan, aka DeathBecomesHer. Sandra is an experience journalist who’s worked for the Press Association and newspapers and…
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Denise Mina wins at Harrogate

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The Scottish author Denise Mina has clinched one of the top accolades in UK crime fiction by winning the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award at the Harrogate Festival late last week. Her book, The End of the Wasp Season, sees DS…
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Meet the Paddington Bear of crime fiction

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On the radar – This week our radar has gone into overdrive detecting an interesting mix of crime fiction from both sides of the pond, including a crime fighting teddy bear! Yes, I did say teddy and no I’m not completely mad. Here at CFL,…
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Pulp Ink 2

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Back when we first launched Crime Fiction Lover almost a year ago, we weren’t so sure how short story compilations would go down with our readers. However we reviewed Pulp Ink, edited by Chris Rhatigan and Nigel Bird to test the waters. It was on…
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Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

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The Yorkshire town of Harrogate is going to be hit by a four-day crime wave from Thursday 19 July. No, they’re not staging their own mini version of last summer’s riots. Rather, Thursday sees the return of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival along…
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Holiday in Cambodia? The latest new crime releases...

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On the radar — The world’s favourite sleuth, Sherlock Holmes is back in a mystery where he’ll take on a character created by another literary heavyweight. This time he’s up against Dr Moreau. But these great characters haven’t been handled by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…
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First look: The Bat by Jo Nesbo

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We don’t want to ignite a flaming wall of envy among fellow fans of Scandinavian crime fiction, but something seismic happened today at CFL HQ. The very first Harry Hole novel, penned by Jo Nesbo in his native Norwegian 15 years ago, arrived on the…
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