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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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On the Radar: Vodka on the rocks

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Yes, yes, it’s a criminal headline but we’re specialists in the field. So we lead with Karin Smirnoff’s new Salander novel, which has the chilling title The Girl With Ice in Her Veins. There are cuts as in film edits with Richard ‘Thorin Oakenshield’ Armitage…
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On the Radar: The Famous Five? Dead?

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The title of our lead book this week, at least, makes us think of simpler times, and it comes from an author who won our Best Indie Novel Award in 2022. Following Sulari Gentill’s Five Found Dead, we’ve got two quite different Yorkshire mysteries, a…
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On the Radar: Illusion, mystery and reality

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Welcome to our weekly news column. This edition begins with the latest from Tom Mead, featuring his 1930s sleuth Joseph Spector, who is also an illusionist. There’s more historical crime fiction in that period with Catherine Merridale’s very different Moscow Underground, plus we’ve got thrillers,…
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