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Death at the Seaside, and more

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On the Radar — We’re leading off this week with two very British books – one’s a collection of short stories by PD James, and the other is the new Kate Shackleton mystery by Frances Brody. What wonderful covers they have, so artful and appealing. After…
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Everyone has a hobby...

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On the Radar — Craig Robertson is a Scottish author who often comes up with an unusual theme or concept for his novels. For instance, he wrote a murder mystery set in the Faroe Islands, where there are approximately two murders every century… provided you…
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Crime Scene issue 5 has landed

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Crime fiction lovers are bound to be interested in this glossy magazine published in the UK by Future Publishing. Coming out quarterly at £7.99 an issue, it’s got 132 pages full of crime TV, movies and books. We’ve been following its progress since before it…
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For the birds?

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On the Radar — The release to look out for this week is the latest Scandinavian crime novel from Norway, The Bird Tribunal. We lead with that but if it’s not to your taste we’ve got a Scottish lawyers, Chinese detectives, a heist in Australia…
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Hard Case Crime gets graphic

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Look out Marvel, look out DC, look out Image Comics! America’s leading publisher of pulp novels, Hard Case Crime, has turned its eyes towards the comic and graphic novel market with the launch of two pulptastic titles this October – Triggerman and Peepland. Let’s start with Triggerman…
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Cold case defrosted

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On the Radar — This week’s new books take us on a journey from chilling Derbyshire where Sarah Ward has another cold case for us, to the baking heat of the Australian Outback and then the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. There’s murder everywhere, including Hampshire…
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