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New festival: Quebecrime

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With two Canadians in our team, here’s some news we like. From 28-30 October, the city of Quebec will see the first Quebecrime Festival held at the Morrin Cultural Centre. The event will include readings, panel discussions and book signings by a range of top…
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Destination South Korea

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Location, location, location. An interesting setting is a key constituent in a good crime novel, and since we started Crime Fiction Lover our reading has taken us to all kinds of places. We visited Ystad, Edinburgh and Miami a few weeks ago when we talked…
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New Amazon Kindle Tablet

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Technology websites this week have been heralding news on the forthcoming Kindle Tablet from Amazon, rumoured to be released in November. The reports hint at a totally new device, to be sold alongside Amazon’s existing Kindle e-reader, but with the added functionality of a tablet…
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Get The Score - free eBook!

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Did you know that the University of Chicago Press gives out a free eBook every month?Their September give-away is great news for fans of crime fiction – you can download the digital version of The Score, by Donald E Westlake (writing here as Richard Stark)….
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Jo Nesbo and real-life crime

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Jo Nesbo and his mysterious detective Harry Hole are responsible for some of the biggest selling Nordic crime fiction releases in recent years. Here in the UK, Redbreast and The Snowman have each been hugely successful, while The Leopard is on our ‘to-read’ list. As…
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The BBC looks at crime fiction

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For our non-UK fans, the BBC’s Time Shift is an excellent documentary series that runs on BBC4. The last two programmes in the series have tackled some of our favourite topics; Nordic Noir: The Story of Scandinavian Crime Fiction; and Italian Noir, about… well, you…
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Watch the trailer for Dregs

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One of the books we’re busy preparing a review for is the English language debut of Norwegian author Jørn Lier Horst. Dregs follows detective William Wisting as he tries to work out where a severed left foot, washed up on the beach near the town…
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Spriteby joins our team

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Today we welcome a new reviewer – Spriteby – to our panel. It should not surprise you to learn that she’s a lover of crime fiction, but Spriteby’s personal tastes in the genre mean we’ll be covering some new ground. “I read mostly historical crime,”…
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