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Libraries: crime most wanted

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Public Lending Right – the body that pays royalties for library borrowing to authors – has released its lists of the most borrowed books in the UK, and crime tops the fiction tables. The most borrowed book in 2010/11 was Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol,…
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Ian Rankin at First Fictions book event

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Looking for something to do this weekend? If you’re a crime fiction lover in the vicinity of Brighton, why not head over to First Fictions, an event for and about people with first novels coming out. The event isn’t only about crime fiction, but Ian…
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CSI: Quebec? Mais oui!

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Starting on 28 October and lasting for three days, Quebec City is to host its first ever crime fiction festival. It’s called QuebeCrime and in addition to appearances by a range of top drawer mystery and thriller authors, the organisers have announced a special new…
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Features

CFL top five books of 2011

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Perhaps you dropped by our site a week or two ago when we were asking readers what their favourite book of the last 12 months has been. Maybe you wondered why we were asking. Was it just to drum up some conversation? Or maybe Crime…
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The Impossible Dead

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This is the follow-up to 2009’s The Complaints, which introduced us to Malcolm Fox and his internal investigation unit. Fox’s group is something of a renegade band, disliked even by their superiors, yet able to wield ever-greater powers of investigation thanks to the establishment’s commitment…
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The Impossible Dead

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Written by Ian Rankin — First a confession: we here at CFL are enormous fans of Ian Rankin. Everyone has their favourite crime fiction character – the enabler detective who first turned their love of the genre into a full-blown addiction – and for us it is…
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