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Interview: Erin Kelly

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A leading light in the new generation of psychological crime writers, Erin Kelly’s 2010 debut The Poison Tree was praised by Stephen King, who compared its powerful suspense to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. The novel about a suburban student who embraces a new bohemian life…
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The Frozen Dead

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Written by Bernard Minier — There is something disquieting about the icy wilderness of the Pyrenees. Diane Berg, a young forensic psychologist, is accustomed to mountains: after all, she is Swiss and has trained with the prestigious Professor Spitzner at the University of Geneva. But the…
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Book Club

Matador

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Against all odds? You would think that when the main character in a book is introduced as being buried alive, with one bullet in his head and another in his body and his memory gone, then things can only improve. Well, they do. After a…
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A summertime of crime

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On The Radar — Summer has finally arrived and what better way to enjoy the heatwave we’ve been promised, than with an ice cold jug of Pimms and some of the latest crime fiction currently on offer. Amongst our latest new releases are the return of…
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Matador

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Written by Ray Banks — Ray Banks is very much a crime writer’s crime writer, with a back catalogue full of dark and deviant grit, like Dead Money, previously reviewed here on Crime Fiction Lover. However, he deserves a much wider audience and his latest, Matador,…
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At the End of a Dull Day

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Written by Massimo Carlotto — Giorgio Pellegrini has left his life of terrorism and crime behind. Or as far behind as is possible in thoroughly corrupt, amoral modern day Venice.  For eleven years, Giorgio has been the owner of the restaurant La Nena, the trendy place for…
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The Dying Hours

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Written by Mark Billingham — Inspector Tom Thorne is a grizzled veteran of a dozen hardcore murder investigations, with both Lazybones (2004) and Death Message (2009) winning that top UK accolade, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. After a year away…
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