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Rough Riders

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Written by Charlie Stella — This New York writer has been on my radar for some time. Never quite breaking out, he has however amassed a solid reputation as a writer of hardboiled, streetwise crime fiction over the course of several novels. When Bill Crider…
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News

JD Robb versus Lynda La Plante...

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On the Radar – This week’s new crime books report sees a face-off between London and New York with two crime novels set in each city. Our radar has picked up on two interesting debut crime stories from both sides of the Atlantic and welcome…
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Split Second

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Written by Cath Staincliffe — Crime writer Cath Staincliffe is well known for her Scott & Bailey books, based on the much loved ITV1 police series Blue Murder. Split Second is one of her standalone novels and it presents a psychological exploration of certain moral…
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Book Club

Dare Me

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“At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something – anything – to begin. There’s something dangerous about the…
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Pulp Ink 2

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Back when we first launched Crime Fiction Lover almost a year ago, we weren’t so sure how short story compilations would go down with our readers. However we reviewed Pulp Ink, edited by Chris Rhatigan and Nigel Bird to test the waters. It was on…
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DI Rebus is back!

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On the radar — This week our radar is going crazy with a major signal as we bring you news of the return of one of crime fiction’s most popular Scottish detectives. Yes, Ian Rankin has penned another Rebus novel. He’s been away for five…
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The Violin Man's Legacy

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Written by Seumas Gallacher — Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former colleagues in ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a diamond heist in Utrecht, but swiftly learns that there is a very strong Far East connection. He then…
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