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The Burning Man

14 April, 2015

By the time a series reaches its 12th novel, it can lose some of its spark. Not so, it seems, with Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May which features the Peculiar Crimes Unit. In The Burning Man our favourite pair of ageing detectives are dealing with a…

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The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

By Keith Nixon

27 March, 2015

Written by Christopher Fowler — London is a city under siege, its angry population taking to the streets to protest at yet another banking scandal which has spewed out onto an already jaded political landscape. In the run up to 5 November, Guy Fawkes Night, thousands…

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Natchez Burning

By DavidPrestidge

19 January, 2015

This is a giant of a book in length, moral stature, and the sheer intensity of the writing. Penn Cage is a lawyer-turned-politician in Natchez, Mississipi – a small town with a big history. As the ghosts of the paddle steamers chug silently by on the…

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Every Secret Thing by Christopher Bartley

By DavidPrestidge

20 December, 2014

Ross Duncan is not a good man. His CV is full of death and destruction. Banks robbed, lives cut short, violence meted out – all have their paragraphs. Look under the blankets in the trunk of his supercharged Dodge, and you will find an arsenal…

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NTN: The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

By Andre

6 November, 2014

Debut novels rarely have quite the impact of The Devil in the Marshalsea, which is currently part of the sales-boosting Richard and Judy Book Club with WH Smith. It was also nominated for the CWA John Creasy Dagger and won the CWA Historical Dagger, though…

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Heartman by MP Wright

By DavidPrestidge

25 June, 2014

There is a deep irony from the outset in the setting of this book. We are in the wintry and snow covered English city of Bristol. It is 1964. Two centuries earlier, Bristol was one of the main European ports exporting African slaves to the…

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Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

By DavidPrestidge

7 March, 2014

Natchez, Mississippi. Just under 16,000 souls. A small town with a big history. It perches on a bluff above the Mississippi River, and some folk reckon they can still hear the ghosts of paddle steamers chunking away down there on the swirling brown waters. Less…

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NTN: Ioanna Bourazopoulou interview

By MarinaSofia

26 November, 2013

Compared to the Scandinavians and the French, Greek crime fiction authors seem few and far between. However Ioanna Bourazopoulou is a Greek author who has seen her novel What Lot’s Wife Saw translated into English. Set in a future when large parts of Europe are…

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The Burning Man

The Burning Man by Christopher Fowler

Natchez Burning

Every Secret Thing by Christopher Bartley

NTN: The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Heartman by MP Wright

Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

NTN: Ioanna Bourazopoulou interview

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