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The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson

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The Innocent Dead is 15th in Scottish author Lin Anderson’s long-running series of police procedurals featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod and the Glaswegian team she works with. Echoes of several of those earlier books appear rather frequently in the pages of this new one, although…
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On the Radar: Berlin is burning

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From post-truth politics to COVID-19 and on to the climate emergency, our world’s real problems are driving many readers to take refuge in crime fiction. We’ve seen a lot more interest in historical crime, which takes you away to bygone eras where we can be…
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Sins of the Dead

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Written by Lin Anderson — Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is on her 13th case and she’s seen her fair share of death threats. In this, the latest of the series with ‘Dead’ in the title, Rhona is in harm’s way again when she is clearly being…
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Murderin' since the beginning of time...

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On the Radar — There are historical crime stories that go back through the ages, as we discovered with Barry Forshaw’s look at 10 historical crime novels in 10 different historical eras. But prehistory is one that hasn’t been covered much, until now. You’ll probably…
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Follow the Dead

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Written by Lin Anderson — Even latecomers to this series featuring forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod will be captivated by the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and the opinionated and lively characters. Follow the Dead opens in a blizzard, on Hogmanay, up in the Cairngorms. This…
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The sexologist crime author

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On the Radar — What? A sexologist who is also a crime author? Or, in this case was a crime author? Well, yes it’s true. The secretive Prof Ernest Borneman taught sexology in Salzburg, but before that he was a German emigre in London who…
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