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Bright lights, dead gangsters

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On the Radar — Hollywood in the 1950s seems a good place to start, but we’re not looking at a new James Ellroy novel this week. Instead new crime talent Guy Bolton brings us his second novel, The Syndicate, which sounds like it has a…
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Indie authors make their move

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On the Radar — It’s a good week for anyone looking for work by indie and self-published authors. Michael Pronko’s latest mystery set in Japan is due to hit the shelves, there’s some creepiness on the way from SJI Holliday and Mark Dawson, who went…
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Cormoran Strike in Lethal White

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On the Radar — It’s time to go back to school, and that means some of the big crime fiction releases are hitting the shelves in time for the cooler weather. One example is JK Rowling’s new Cormoran Strike novel, Lethal White, which leads our…
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Crime fiction improv hits Melbourne

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If you’re in Melbourne, Australia in mid-September, it’d be a crime not to catch up with the city’s Fringe Festival, which this year includes Murder Village, an improve entertainment act who will be creating original whodunits throughout a week-long engagement. This comedic murder mystery will…
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Suicide is painless

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On the Radar — Suicide is a staple cause of death in crime fiction. At first, anyhow. Soon the detectives find out that what looks like suicide is actually a murder and then the intrigue begins. We might just have a book or two like…
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