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On the Radar — Can you spot the incendiary thread that runs through the first three new crime releases this week? We’ve got arson and a cold case that turns red hot in the latest from Michael Connelly, that good old reference to wooden matches…
Blood Song by Johana Gustawsson
Translated by David Warriner — Kerstin, Götan and Louise Lindbergh are viciously murdered and their tongues cut out in their home in Falkenberg, Sweden. In London the youngest of the family, Aliénor Lindbergh, is a new police recruit being mentored by profiler Emily Roy, when…
10 crime shows that time forgot
The older you get, the more you have those ‘what was it called?’ moments. Know the ones I mean? It’s when a fleeting memory passes by, blithely waves and then continues into the ether, leaving behind a vague recollection that’s bound to bother you all…
The top five crime films at Cannes 2019
Our film noir correspondent Dennis Broe reveals a darker side of Asia as he reports on the best crime movies to emerge at this year’s Cannes Film Festival While some would argue that the main crime at Cannes this year was the refusal to allow…
Out of the Ashes by Vicky Newham
London. AKA The Smoke. Home of the cheery, never-say-die Cockney, who likes to dress up in his Pearly King costume, eat jellied eels and talk in rhyming slang. Got that, me ol’ China? Well that’s all the stereotypes out of the way, so let’s take…
First look: More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Everyone’s heard of Sherlock Holmes. He’s one of the most famous fictional detectives ever created. However, once you’ve read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s entire Holmes canon of 56 short stories and four novels, what do you do? One option is to read books by other…