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The Final Episode by Lori Roy

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Why one story totally captures my attention and another doesn’t, I can’t always pinpoint. It’s some ineffable yet powerful characteristic that goes beyond plot, character and setting. For whatever reasons Lori Roy’s new thriller, The Final Episode, kept me spellbound. She provides a great set-up…
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Red Water by Jurica Pavičic

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Translated by Matt Robinson — During the 1990s when Yugoslavia split up, the region went through violent and cataclysmic changes. As communism collapsed, ethnic and political tensions led to conflict, with different nationalities fighting over once-shared territories. It was a tumultuous time and one might…
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Features

Interview: Jurica Pavičić

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Here’s a first! We’ve never interviewed a Croatian crime writer on the site before – but today that changes as we welcome the Split-based journalist and author Jurica Pavičic. On 22 May, his work will appear in English translation for the first time with Red…
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The Murder Show by Matt Goldman

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Author Matt Goldman is part of that tribe of television writers who have made a successful jump into print. These authors have in common their ability to establish steadily rising action with no lulls and visual imaginations that let them describe scenes so that readers…
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