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Interview: Lee Matthew Goldberg

21 June, 2022

2022 is a big year for New York author Lee Matthew Goldberg. This month he launched Immoral Origins, the first book in his Desire Card series, and he plans to release four more before the year is out. These rapid-fire pulp noir novels start off…

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May God Forgive by Alan Parks

By Paul Burke

12 May, 2022

May is a good month for the Scottish crime fiction author Alan Parks. In 2022, it has seen him win the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for Bobby March Will Live Forever, alongside the launch of the latest book in his ‘months’ series, May…

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Appointment in Tehran by James Stejskal

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 November, 2021

If you remember the 1979 crisis when radical Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran and took more than 50 Americans hostage, you’ll read James Stejskal’s riveting new thriller with an increasing sense of foreboding. That’s especially if you also recall that the US…

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The Dark Remains by Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney

By Paul Burke

19 October, 2021

This novel was one of the publishing events of 2021. Ian Rankin has completed William McIlvanney’s unfinished manuscript of a prequel to the Laidlaw trilogy – the series credited with establishing the Tartan noir subgenre. (If you’re new to Laidlaw, you can read more about…

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The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

By Paul Burke

3 September, 2021

Laidlaw’s first big case. When William McIlvanney died in 2015, the importance of his Laidlaw novels to Scottish crime fiction was just beginning to be properly recognised. He’s now rightly seen as the godfather of Tartan noir. Intriguingly, McIlvanney left behind a half-written manuscript for…

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A Question of Time by James Stejskal

By Vicki Weisfeld

19 November, 2020

James Stejskal’s debut espionage thriller takes place in 1979 in a divided Berlin. Located in the heart of then-Communist East Germany, Berlin was notoriously fertile territory for spies. In East Berlin and the country surrounding the city were the Soviets and the Stasi, East Germany’s…

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Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

By DeathBecomesHer

3 August, 2020

Ooh, I love a book title with a clever pun, and Max Tomlinson’s Tie Die has the added bonus of immediately giving the reader some idea of the era in which it is set. Have you guessed yet? This mystery novel opens in the 1960s…

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Stasi Winter

By Kate Vane

7 January, 2020

Written by David Young — Stasi Winter is the fifth novel in the Stasi series featuring Karin Müller of the People’s Police in East Germany. It is 1978 and the country is enduring a notoriously cold winter. Müller is the single mother of young twins,…

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Interview: Lee Matthew Goldberg

May God Forgive by Alan Parks

Appointment in Tehran by James Stejskal

The Dark Remains by Ian Rankin and William McIlvanney

The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

A Question of Time by James Stejskal

Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

Stasi Winter

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