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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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Before It's Too Late by Jane Isaac

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There is a seemingly unquenchable thirst for police procedurals among crime fiction fans, and this one certainly scores high marks for its setting. The graceful river with its swans, the ancient streets and lanes, the half-timbered houses – all would have been familiar to William…
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The Norway Room

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Written by Mick Scully — Over the last few decades, we’ve had superior gangland crime novels set in London (Layer Cake by JJ Connolly, Jake Arnott’s The Long Firm), Scunthorpe (Ted Lewis’s classic Jack’s Return Home, filmed as Get Carter) and Tom Benn’s current series…
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Gone in Seconds

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Written by AJ Cross — Some debut novels can be hampered by the need to provide a back-story for all of the main characters. Not so Gone In Seconds. I’m not really sure how she did it, but somehow AJ Cross manages to make you…
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