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On the Radar: This wheel shall explode

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This week’s new books column is packed with indie and alternative crime fiction, with titles from the UK, US and Canada to tempt you. We start off with the latest from Jake Arnott, one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ crime authors. There’s historical crime fiction…
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On the Radar: Soap star monsters

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Can you imagine what would happen if someone was murdered on the set of Coronation Street? One of the show’s former writers has imagined just that as he turns his talents to crime fiction. We start our report with Martin Sterling’s We Create Monsters, but…
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On the Radar: New Slow Horses at a gallop

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As we hurtle toward September, excitement fills the air because we’ll soon have the latest novel in the Slough House series in for review, plus a new series of Slow Horses (also based on Mick Herron’s British espionage stories) arriving on Apple TV+ on 24…
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On the Radar: The killer question is...

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…which of these books will be your next read? We’ll get things going with The Killer Question by Janice Hallett, but don’t worry this is a news report not a hotly contested quiz. We’ve also got new novels from Jo Furniss, AG Winkworth, Anna McPartlin,…
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