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Cold Desert Sky, and more...

22 June, 2018

On the Radar — With a trip back to 1946 Los Angeles, British author Rod Reynolds takes us into James Ellroy’s stomping ground in our lead book this week. How will he fare as his journalist Charlie Yates investigates the deaths of two actresses? Cara…

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Everything's bigger in Texas: 11 of the best lone star crime novels

By crimefictionlover

8 June, 2018

Crime fiction expert Craig Sisterson brings us a selection of the very best crime fiction set in the Lone Star State… Texas. A single word that evokes a dizzying array of vivid images, and stereotypes. A place of romanticised cowboys during frontier days, and romanticised…

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Smoking Kills and other dark treats

By crimefictionlover

8 June, 2018

On the Radar — A little dark humour goes a long way in the world of crime fiction, and this week we start off with two titles that will make you smile. Antoine Laurain and Paul D Brazill’s new releases are both very different, but…

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The Chosen Ones

By DeathBecomesHer

24 May, 2018

Written by Carol Wyer — Can it really only be a year since we first met Carol Wyer and DI Robyn Carter? We’re now five books into the series and Carter is about to face her most confounding case yet. The body of a young…

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A guide to Arnaldur Indridason’s Detective Erlendur

By Jeremy Megraw

11 May, 2018

Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is a brilliant cop, but also a gloomy and thoroughly anti-social figure who guards his privacy jealously. When he’s not doggedly pursuing a case, he is hunkered down at home brooding over its details. He passes his solitary time reading his strange…

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Interview: Amanda Jennings

By Catherine Turnbull

3 May, 2018

Psychological thrillers set in the ’end of the world’ atmosphere of the Cornish coast in clifftop mansions are having a resurgence, 80 years after Daphne du Maurier penned her novels full of dark secrets. And why not? The county is not all pasties and cream…

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The Lies We Told

By DeathBecomesHer

2 May, 2018

Written by Camilla Way — Lies… a little word that can have huge consequences, as evidenced in this stand alone by the author of Watching Edie, one of our recommended reads in 2016. Clara and Luke are living a perfect life. They both work for a…

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Tabula Rasa - unforgettable crime show from Belgium

By crimefictionlover

30 April, 2018

Brussels is taking over. No, not a slogan from Donald Farage or Nigel Trump. It’s just that with the likes of Salamander, 13 Commandments and The Out-laws, Belgian crime shows are on the up. The latest to arrive is Tabula Rasa, which airs on Channel…

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Cold Desert Sky, and more...

Everything's bigger in Texas: 11 of the best lone star crime novels

Smoking Kills and other dark treats

The Chosen Ones

A guide to Arnaldur Indridason’s Detective Erlendur

Interview: Amanda Jennings

The Lies We Told

Tabula Rasa - unforgettable crime show from Belgium

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