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In the footsteps of Agatha Christie

21 October, 2017

When Kenneth Branagh’s big screen version of Murder on the Orient Express comes to British cinemas on 3 November, another generation of crime fiction fans will have the chance to sit back and marvel at the dark imagination of Golden Age crime author Agatha Christie,…

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CIS: The Glimpses of the Moon

By nagaisayonara

1 September, 2017

Written by Edmund Crispin — Oxford don and armchair detective Gervase Fen saw a fair bit of England in the course of nine novels and two collections of short stories. The Glimpses of the Moon was first published in 1977. This makes it quite a late…

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The Order of Things by Graham Hurley

By DavidPrestidge

17 November, 2015

Here’s a book that will quickly grab your attention, and possibly that of any recently consumed meals as well. The story begins when a doctor is found disembowelled in a Devon cottage bedroom which resembles a charnel house. Amid the viscera, the police discover a…

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A gazetteer of British crime: The South West

By DavidPrestidge

30 September, 2015

So far, our gazetteer of British crime has covered Scotland and East Anglia, where we’ve met interesting authors and seen – a little bit at least – how the landforms, history and local culture have influenced them. In our third instalment, we head to another…

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The Lost Child by Ann Troup

By nagaisayonara

8 September, 2015

Despite the title, the true nature of the crime in this captivating debut novel never becomes apparent until the very end. There are some people who will do anything to keep the truth from coming out, and they want Mandy Miller – a child who…

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A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

By MarinaSofia

24 July, 2015

Nobody does dark and twisted better than Sophie Hannah, but after an inroad into Agatha Christie territory with The Monogram Murders, she seems in no hurry to get back to her crime series featuring Charlie Zailer and Simon Waterhouse. In this contemporary standalone novel, Hannah…

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Tell Tale by Mark Sennen

By DeathBecomesHer

18 February, 2015

It is always something of a lottery for a reader to discover an author and character mid-series. Will you feel left out of a tight-knit clique, or be welcomed to the fold with open arms? Tell Tale is the fourth Sennen novel to feature DI…

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Sins of the Father by Graham Hurley

By DavidPrestidge

2 December, 2014

In England’s West Country, DS Jimmy Suttle is called in to investigate the brutal murder of Rupert Moncrieff, a wealthy octagenarian living out his days in a house called Magharibi. Moncrieff was an ‘old Africa hand’, and among the tribal masks and mementos of his…

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In the footsteps of Agatha Christie

CIS: The Glimpses of the Moon

The Order of Things by Graham Hurley

A gazetteer of British crime: The South West

The Lost Child by Ann Troup

A Game for All the Family by Sophie Hannah

Tell Tale by Mark Sennen

Sins of the Father by Graham Hurley

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