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On the Radar: A drop of the Irish

Scottish crime fiction is booming, Wales is getting its own national crime fiction festival and this week we’re kicking off our news column with a new novel by one of Ireland’s finest and most respected crime authors, Ken Bruen. So it seems as though crime…
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The Dead Beat by Doug Johnstone

With a story that features suicide, clinical depression and the struggling newspaper industry in Edinburgh, The Dead Beat might sound like a gloomy read. It’s certainly a hard-hitting psychological thriller, though its 90s grunge soundtrack and troubled, headstrong protagonist give the novel an angsty energy…
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Free online crime writing workshop

What’s happening in the image above? At first it might seem a bit of a mystery, but it’s from the set of a new online broadcasting outfit in Ireland called WritersWebTV. And if you’re an aspiring crime writer, you might want to investigate. On Wednesday…
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Purgatory

Written by Ken Bruen — Irish crime writer Ken Bruen’s series featuring Jack Taylor, a former officer with the Garda in Galway, is now a TV show starring Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen as the private detective. But for the full hit of 100…
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