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CrimeFictionLover: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By crimefictionlover
21 June, 2013
For the last 11 weeks, each of our writers in turn has been sharing the five books that got them hooked on crime fiction. Everybody’s taste is different and we’ve seen an incredible variety of suggestions. There have been Golden Age classics and police procedurals….
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RoughJustice: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By RoughJustice
14 June, 2013
Looking back, my reading habits have always followed a similar course. Something piques my interest and sets me down a path which I then follow obsessively until I either lose interest or find a new compulsion. That has seen me devouring the Beats, the Angry…
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DispatchesFromNoir: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By DispatchesFromNoir
7 June, 2013
I’ve been reading crime fiction almost since I learned to read. My tastes in crime fiction have changed markedly over the years, but that’s the great thing about this genre. It grows and evolves with us, always offering top-notch writing in many different styles. Encyclopedia…
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Lucy: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Lucy
31 May, 2013
Like LoiteringWithIntent I also got into crime fiction fairly late in life. One year, whilst on holiday with my parents, I finished my book and hadn’t brought another one with me. My father is an avid crime fiction reader, and handed me a James Patterson…
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PulpCurry: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By PulpCurry
24 May, 2013
When it all comes down to it, I have to credit my late father for getting me hooked on crime fiction. My dad loved writers like Carter Brown, Mickey Spillane and Ian Fleming. He passed on his taste in books to me, particularly his love…
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LoiteringWithIntent: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By LoiteringWithIntent
17 May, 2013
In comparison to my fellow CFL contributors, I came to crime pretty late. No Famous Five, no Secret Seven. Although Roald Dahl covered some very dark territory – domestic violence, worldwide infanticide plots, elaborate tortures in a chocolate factory. So when I finally caught up,…
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MarinaSofia: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By MarinaSofia
10 May, 2013
Like all children growing up in an English-speaking environment, I had my share of Famous Five and Secret Seven as a child, but I think I realised even back then that the carefree lifestyle depicted would not suit my own urban existence. Growing up in…
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Jeremy Megraw: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Jeremy Megraw
3 May, 2013
After reflecting on the diverting challenge by CFL to pick the top five books that got me hooked on crime fiction, I’ve found the stories that moved me most turned out to be ones that sought to subvert the genre in some way. My favourite crime titles…
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