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On the Radar: Come with us...

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There is never a dull moment in crime fiction – join us as we look forward to the latest mystery, thriller and noir releases in August starting with Erin Flanagan’s Come with Me. There are killer bees, a perplexing missing persons case, a sinister religious…
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On the Radar: Protect the child!

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Even in fiction, when pregnant women come under threat our protective instinct kicks in. Writers can use this to their advantage and it’s cropping up a fair bit in crime fiction at the moment. Megan Abbott’s Beware the Woman is a case in point (watch…
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On the Radar: Sean Duffy returns at last!

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Is it just us, or is Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy series the most underrated set of novels in the business? The characters. The dialogue. The Northern Ireland setting. The author’s deft way of weaving the Troubles into the wider milieu of late stage colonialism. And…
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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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