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Interview: Laura Lippman

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Laura Lippman began her crime-writing career while working as a journalist, including 12 years at the Baltimore Sun (which also employed David Simon, creator of The Wire and Lippman’s husband). Her eighth standalone novel, After I’m Gone, was recently published in paperback and this month…
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The Caveman by Jørn Lier Horst

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Translated by Anne Bruce — It’s Christmas time and the Norwegian coastal town of Larvik is covered in a blanket of snow. A few doors down from where Chief Inspector William Wisting lives, Viggo Hansen is found dead in his home. He’s been there for four months without anybody noticing….
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The Hunting Dogs

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“Where have you been all my life?” asked our reviewer Jeremy Megraw when he discovered this Glass Key winning novel by Jorn Lier Horst. The Norwegian detective William Wisting is shocked when he hears that his own department is implicated in a corruption scandal. His…
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A Case of Noir by Paul D Brazill

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Collected here are the five short stories Brazill has written about Luke Case, an English freelance journalist working across the continent. Case is an excellent noir creation. He’s a sex- and booze-hound, and a hack with a mysterious past trying to keep his head above…
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