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Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow

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Set in Birmingham in 1933, Needless Alley explores provincial England between the wars from a working class and queer perspective. It’s a debut novel for Natalie Marlow, a Warwickshire-based author whose passion is for stories from the past, and the book is named after a…
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The Passengers

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Written by John Marrs — Crime fiction writers are a pretty twisted lot. If they’re not creating slap-the-forehead-and-cry-out-in-shock moments, they’re happily sitting at home, surveying the world around them and coming up with cunning uses for everyday objects. Sound familiar, John Marrs? Maybe he got…
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NTN: Dark Fragments by Rob Sinclair

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You’ll have noticed that one of our New Talent November sponsors is Bloodhound Books, a publisher specialising in tracking down new crime authors and bringing their books to market both as ebooks and paperbacks. Rob Sinclair is part of the Bloodhound gang, and you may…
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A gazetteer of British crime: The West Midlands

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If you’re a regular visitor to Crime Fiction Lover, perhaps you’ve been following our gazetteer series, where we focus on fine crime writers who’ve established themselves and written substantial works set in specific regions of the United Kingdom. In the past we’ve looked at Scotland,…
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