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Playing hardball and murder's at bat

With the Major League Baseball playoffs in full swing, today we’re tipping our cap to readers in America. If you love baseball and crime fiction, author Allen Schatz has what you need. He’s written three books in which MLB is the backdrop, and umpire Marshall…
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Portnoy: new from Ireland

In the summer author Arlene Hunt and husband Andrew Mangan set up the new Dublin-based publishing house Portnoy, and now they are set to release their first book. There’s nothing quite like a new book back from the printers, and they’ve just received  Hunt’s own…
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Be a character in DE Johnson’s next book!

To celebrate the release of his latest novel, Motor City Shakedown, crime fiction writer DE Johnson is offering anyone who reviews the book the chance to become a character in his next novel, Detroit Breakdown. In order to enter the draw, all you have to…
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The new Kindle and Amazon Fire tablet

Amazon today announced a new tablet computer called the Kindle Fire, and a redesigned, smaller, lighter and cheaper Kindle. The Kindle Fire confirms rumours we reported on earlier, and is being sold alongside the new Kindle e-readers in direct competition to Apple’s iPad. It will retail…
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Victorian crime compo: update

Have you entered our competition to win a signed copy of DE Meredith’s novel, Devoured? We’re giving two away as a prelude to the release of her new novel The Devil’s Ribbon next month. Full details of the competition can be found here, but we’ve…
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Ned Kelly Award winners announced

The 16th annual Ned Kelly Awards has named Brit-born Alan Carter this year’s winner of the Best First Fiction prize for his book, Prime Cut, which explores the dark underbelly of the Australian mining industry and small town police corruption. The book is set in the…
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