News

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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The Lingering

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Written by SJI Holliday — Susi Holliday has been making quite a name for herself as a writer of creepy and claustrophobic thrillers. She is the author of the Banktoun trilogy and we reviewed book one, Black Wood, in 2015. One of her short stories, Home…
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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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Features

Interview: HJ Golakai

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Hawa Jande Golakai is a crime novelist and clinical scientist from Liberia. She featured in the prestigious Africa 39 Project via which the Hay Festival celebrated African authors under the age of 40, and she recently appeared at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her novel…
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A Noise Downstairs

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Written by Linwood Barclay — This could be called The Case of the Haunted Typewriter, because an old-fashioned typewriter is one of the eeriest images in Linwood Barclay’s new psychological thriller. Paul Davis is a professor at a small Connecticut college living with his second…
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The Death of Mrs Westaway

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Written by Ruth Ware — Cornwall has proved a rich source of inspiration for many a writer. From Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to, more recently, In Her Wake by Amanda Jennings and Robert Goddard’s Panic Room, its rugged coastline and windswept landscapes have provided ripe…
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