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Interview: Jón Atli Jónasson

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Although Jón Atli Jónasson isn’t a household name, if you’re a Scandi-phile or love Nordic noir you may have come across his work. Together with Baltasar Kormákur, Jón Atli wrote the screenplay for The Deep, the excellent Icelandic film which dramatised the story of a…
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On the Radar: A crime fiction gold rush

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Here in our new books report this week there’s a fine seam of great reading. Crime fiction gold, you could say. And one of the books literally involves the Yukon gold rush of the late 19th century. We’ve got award-winning American crime author SA Cosby’s…
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CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2020

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Isolation. Lockdown. Restrictions. Pandemic. Plandemic. Recession. You don’t need me to tell you that 2020 wasn’t a year brimming with positives. With the challenges we’ve all faced, it’s been difficult to enjoy the darker crime novels that I normally read in quite the same way,…
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Book Club

Broken

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Known for his epic-length novels about crime down on the US-Mexico border, Don Winslow challenged himself to write some shorter format material and Broken, featuring six short stories, is an out-and-out winner. The title is a clue to the theme – it’s a book about…
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Don Winslow's back with six novellas

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On the Radar — It’s pretty exciting when an author like Don Winslow drops you a line. We received a letter from the author last week telling us about how he’s doing the literary equivalent of changing his event. Known for his marathon crime stories…
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