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CIS: The perfect Poirot primer

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Name three famous Belgians… A tough ask, I know, and one that may tax your little grey cells. Wait! There’s a clue! And as a lover of crime fiction, you’ll surely have used it to come up with the world’s number one Belgian. That’s right…
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CIS: My classics by Rachel Howzell Hall

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With the crime fiction genre now so well established and popular, today’s authors have plenty of places to turn for inspiration. Rachel Howzell Hall is the up-and-coming Los Angeles author behind Land of Shadows, an adroit police procedural of uncanny quality that had RoughJustice staggered…
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The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum

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When you pick up this Norwegian crime novel, don’t expect something out of the Nordic noir tradition. Instead prepare yourself for a classic whodunit of the highest calibre, a deviously challenging murder mystery set in an apartment complex in 1960s Oslo. Kolbjørn Kristiansen, a rookie…
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A Darker Shade

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Edited and translated by John-Henri Holmberg — When you open A Darker Shade in the expectation of some suspenseful, Nordic noir short stories, don’t make the mistake that I almost did and skip the 20-page introduction to this anthology. What I wrongly assumed to be…
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