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The best World War I crime fiction

Today marks 100 years since Britain entered World War I. For the next five years, writers, artists and historians from all over the world will remind us the momentous events which took place between 1914 and 1919. The Great War is remembered for its soldier…
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Demons Walk Among Us

Written by Jonathan Hicks — Last year, Hicks introduced us to Captain Thomas Oscendale, of The Military Foot Police. In The Dead of Mametz, he was investigating treachery and murder during the Battle of The Somme. Now, he is in the Ypres Salient, and it…
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Hot weather and hot reads

On the Radar — It’s been a hot week in England, and this summer seems to be as hot as ever in the crime fiction universe. This week publishers have sent us a thriller from James Patterson, two Italian mysteries, something from Sweden and more. Read…
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The Dead of Mametz

Written by Jonathan Hicks — July 1916, northern France. After 22 months of a war that was meant to be over before its first Christmas, British forces are poised to push the German invaders off the Somme ridges and drive them back whence they came….
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