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On the Radar: One more gig in Fun City

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There’s nothing like a good heist story and that’s where we’ll begin with this week’s news column – Michael Kardos’s Fun City Heist. Plus, you’ll find intriguing historical crime, futuristic scheming, the death of a fiddler and an alphabet killer. It spells mystery aplenty for…
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On the Radar - Never in November

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Ken Follett is a name often associated with historical fiction but the Welsh author’s first major success was the wartime espionage thriller, Eye of the Needle, in 1978. It’s a tightly told psychological tale of deception on an isolated island. His return sees him move…
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On the Radar: New Latino noir, and more

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Today our new books column starts off with some very hot Mexican crime fiction by Élmer Mendoza, AKA the godfather of narco-lit. It seems that Latin American crime fiction just gets better and better, so see what you think of Kiss the Detective. But if…
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Hide your bones, Tempe Brennan is back

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On the Radar — March 2020 sees the return of Kathy Reichs and her main character, Temperance Brennan. As a forensic anthropologist, there’s nothing Tempe likes more than a sack of bones – the older the better – and the chance to investigate how their…
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