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From Grace to darkness

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On the Radar — What a line-up we’ve got for you today! From the latest Roy Grace mystery set in Brighton through to Edie Kiglatuk in the Arctic Circle, and back to Nottingham with good old Charlie Resnick, there are murders galore and they all…
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Features

Are crime novels killing short stories?

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While the crime novel is in rude health with huge sales for contemporary genre authors, what about the short story? It’s true that labyrinthine crime plots have always suited the novel – although Golden Age writers penned shorter novels than today’s chunky bestsellers – but…
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Events: an Autumn of crime

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If you missed the annual summer pilgrimage to Harrogate for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, fear not. Autumn has a bumper crop of crime author events from bookshop appearances to major festivals. Appropriately for a former rock star (in Norway, that is), Jo…
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