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On the Radar: Cosy up and get ready for Xmas

12 September, 2025

Yup, we’ve mentioned the X-word. Autumn is here and it’s a great time to get into some cosy crime fiction with our lead novel – the latest in the Corpse series by Cathy Ace. Nicola Upson serves up a slice of Christmas, which we promise…

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On the Radar: Rebus 24

By crimefictionlover

27 September, 2024

Edinburgh’s man in black, Ian Rankin, is such a legend that he’s been invited to the launch of The Cure’s new album. We hope Robert Smith is reading because as he puts the finishing notes to the band’s 14th LP, Ian Rankin is about to…

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On the Radar: Those Ozark dogs are howlin'

By crimefictionlover

24 March, 2023

It seems like ages since we’ve been to the Ozarks, the Southern mountain range that seems to be such a great setting for rural noir crime fiction. Eli Cranor is back with his second book to fix that, though. That’s our lead book this week,…

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April in Spain by John Banville

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

20 October, 2021

Until recently John Banville published his crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black to separate them from his more complex fiction. According to the author, he could write a crime fiction novel in three or four months while his more literary work took up more…

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On the Radar: Something Quirke-y from John Banville

By crimefictionlover

24 September, 2021

Our unquenchable thirst for more crime novels continues here in On the Radar. This week the immensely talented literary author John Banville is back with a new Quirke novel. Previously he published them under his crime fiction nom de plume, Benjamin Black. Meanwhile, Dominic Martell…

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On the radar: Off the beaten path

By crimefictionlover

24 September, 2020

It turns out the new normal is just like the old normal, only a bit more rubbish. That’s why we need crime fiction – it can take us well away from the normal. Take this week’s new books, for example. The normal settings of London…

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The Black Eyed Blonde

By crimefictionlover

14 April, 2015

Raymond Chandler is no longer around to write new stories starring his archetypal private detective, Philip Marlowe. So here Benjamin Black steps up to the plate with a mystery meant to follow on from Marlowe’s 1953 novel The Long Goodbye. Does it work? Our reviewer…

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The Black Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

By Raven

27 February, 2015

Author John Banville has won the Booker Prize. Here he writes as Benjamin Black, embarking on a homage to Raymond Chandler by recreating Philip Marlowe in a story meant to follow on from the 1953 novel The Long Goodbye. Using a title Chandler might even have used…

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On the Radar: Cosy up and get ready for Xmas

On the Radar: Rebus 24

On the Radar: Those Ozark dogs are howlin'

April in Spain by John Banville

On the Radar: Something Quirke-y from John Banville

On the radar: Off the beaten path

The Black Eyed Blonde

The Black Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

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