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On the Radar: Ambrose Parry, you say?

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Lovers of historical crime fiction can get ready for a treat as Ambrose Parry, the time travelling pen name of Chris Brookmyre and his partner Maria Haetzman, serves up an 1853 Edinburgh mystery with echoes of the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare. There seems to be…
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On the Radar: Follow the desert star

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Bosch and Ballard are back to head up our round-up of new crime books this week, and we have a review on the way of Michael Connelly’s Desert Star. Perfect timing – hopefully it will tide you over if you’re waiting for the second season…
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On the Radar: Ready for blast off

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What a week for the crime fiction genre. You could say it’s out of this world. For a start, the astronaut Chris Hadfield is launching his crime fiction debut and it sounds pretty intriguing. It’s a ‘what if…’ conspiracy story set around the abandoned Apollo…
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The Lost

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Written by Claire McGowan — Ireland may be renowned for its love of ‘the craic’ – good times, smiles and a drop of the black stuff – but it has a troubled and turbulent history too. Having links with the south of the country myself, I’m…
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Murder, beautiful murder

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On the radar — This week’s book report has a distinctly European flavour to it with all of our books focusing on crimes with their roots in the past. We start our travels in Germany with a modern day fairytale that’s every bit as dark as…
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