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Paul Burke: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Paul Burke
28 May, 2022
Nothing beats the thrill of a great mystery, which is why I came to crime fiction for the excitement of the genre as a teenager. It became more than that over time – I stayed for the love of a genre that is perceptive and…
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Erin Britton: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Erin Britton
22 May, 2022
The Three Investigators. Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys. The Famous Five. Encyclopedia Brown. Hanging out with that bunch of precocious nosy parkers during my formative years is definitely what started me on the path to a life of crime (fiction). Of all the kid detectives,…
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Sonja van der Westhuizen: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Sonja van der Westhuizen
20 June, 2019
I blame my love for crime fiction entirely on the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Unlike the rest of the world, South Africa only experienced its first television broadcast on 5 January 1976. A lot of the programming consisted of imported programmes which were dubbed into Afrikaans, including…
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Kate Vane: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Kate Vane
4 June, 2019
For a long time I thought that crime fiction was just about perplexing puzzles and contrived plot twists, perhaps due to gorging on Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie when I was a child. I was working in criminal justice and my fascination was character and…
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Mal McEwan: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Mal McEwan
11 July, 2017
I came late to crime fiction after many years of playing the field. My earliest childhood was filled with Famous Five, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries but as I got older the crime dropped away and I dutifully read through classic and modern literary…
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Philip Rafferty: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Philip Rafferty
31 May, 2017
I missed many years of mystery reading due to the faulty assumption that what I would encounter in crime fiction would be trite and less well-written than more serious literature. I wondered why anyone would read mysteries when they could read Proust, or James Joyce, or Tolstoy?…
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Zac Colbert: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Zachary Colbert
17 July, 2015
Stories save lives, I truly believe that. Being able to get lost in a world even if only for an hour, provides crucial respite from the harsh realities of real life. I discovered crime fiction in my mid-20s. After falling in love with the likes…
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Raven: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Raven
4 July, 2015
I became hooked on crime fiction thanks to the encouragement of my mum who started me reading, and gave me the keys to the crime kingdom with her crime and thriller collection very early on. Having quickly rejected the Golden Age – far too dull for my…
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