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Chris Brookmyre wins Theakston Crime Novel of the Year 2017

21 July, 2017

Scottish author Chris Brookmyre has been awarded the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for 2017 for his book Black Widow. “I’m really quite taken aback,” said the author. “I’ve been shortlisted three times for this award, always the bridesmaid, today I…

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No Middle Name

By Catherine Turnbull

20 May, 2017

Written by Lee Child — Jack Reacher is no slouch when it comes to leaping in the saddle to right wrongs and joust with the wicked in Lee Child’s full-length novels. In this book of whip-cracking tales the short story form spurs on the action to…

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Night School

By DeathBecomesHer

19 November, 2016

Written by Lee Child — We’ve got to number 21 in the Jack Reacher series and the big man is as unpredictable as ever. As is his creator, because this time Lee Child has taken Reacher back 20 years and our 35-year-old hero is still…

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Crime Scene issue 5 has landed

By crimefictionlover

7 September, 2016

Crime fiction lovers are bound to be interested in this glossy magazine published in the UK by Future Publishing. Coming out quarterly at £7.99 an issue, it’s got 132 pages full of crime TV, movies and books. We’ve been following its progress since before it…

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First look: Jack Reacher - the prequel

By crimefictionlover

12 April, 2016

Mark 8 November in your diary, Jack Reacher fans, because that’s the day Lee Child’s 21st Reacher novel, Night School, comes out as a hardback. It’s happy 21st, Jack, because this novel has plenty to bring to the party. To begin with, Child will take…

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Make Me by Lee Child

By DeathBecomesHer

7 April, 2016

Baggage. Where would crime fiction protagonists be without it? There’s no doubt it plays a huge part in defining the ever-growing cast of flawed heroes and heroines that people our favourite reads. Jack Reacher is different though. He’s a man who carries no baggage, of…

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Personal by Lee Child

By DavidPrestidge

22 September, 2014

Jack Reacher, once a major in the US Military Police and now a drifter, is on a bus. That it is not unusual for Reacher. He doesn’t own a car or carry a suitcase, and when his clothes wear out he just buys new ones….

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The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson

By DeathBecomesHer

5 August, 2014

We first met DCI Billy McCartney in 2013, in The Killing Pool, which I picked as my top book of that year here on CFL. Now he’s back in a story that straddles a gap of almost a quarter of a century. The action begins…

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Chris Brookmyre wins Theakston Crime Novel of the Year 2017

No Middle Name

Night School

Crime Scene issue 5 has landed

First look: Jack Reacher - the prequel

Make Me by Lee Child

Personal by Lee Child

The House on the Hill by Kevin Sampson

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