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Slow Horses Season 6 comes to Apple TV

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Few shows on Apple TV have captured the attention quite like Slow Horses. The adaptation of Mick Herron’s novels has earned rave reviews and awards recognition for writer Will Smith and the cast. Marquee names from Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas to Hugo Weaving,…
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Meet the author: Tina Henry

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The antihero novel has to be one of the hardest types of crime fiction to write. But this is exactly what Irish author Tina Henry set out to do with Killer Smile – her debut crime novel. So here at Crime Fiction Lover, we tip…
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Interview: Philip Swan

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Are you ready for something a little different? We already know that an animal angle is popular in a crime novel. For example, there are the Alsatians Maggie in Robert Crais’s Suspect, and Rex in Pork Pie Pandemonium by Steve Higgs. Now, Sheffield-based author Philip Swan…
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Interview: Saima Mir

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Saima Mir is a British crime author who offers readers something different and challenges perceptions. Get this – her trilogy featuring Jia Khan is antihero noir with a Muslim woman leading a crime syndicate. The idea of it immediately made me want to find out…
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On the Radar: Keeping it in the family

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Family values. They’re so important in society, they tell us. They’re important in crime fiction too, for sure. This week we’ve got a mother-daughter investigation, some twins, an uncle-nephew heist duo, a disappeared daughter and even a family pet. Sort of. Does murder run in…
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Make Thick My Blood by Toni Viola

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Set against the volatile backdrop of Rome, Toni Viola’s Make Thick My Blood blends procedural investigation, political intrigue and personal reckoning into a thriller that is as interested in the moral pressures placed on its characters as it is in solving a crime. As a…
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