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On the Radar: Time for some noir crime fiction

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Let’s take a break from all the Yuletide mysteries hitting the shelves. Let’s hide the cosy crime novels under some magazines. And let’s remind ourselves that few things are better than watching characters act against their better judgement and morals, only to pay the price…
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Holidays from hell

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On the Radar — Are you ready for Easter? Be on your guard because bad things can happen during the holidays and in Chris Brookmyre’s latest novel there are echoes of the Madeline McCann case, that real-life holiday tragedy in Portugal. This week’s new crime…
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Features

NTN: Ten to taste part 1

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We’d love to bring you reviews of every new crime book released onto the market – mainstream, indie and self-published. But the honest truth is we can’t even count them, let alone read all of them. What we can do is bring you sampler features…
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Horror x crime, and more...

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On the Radar — The horror, the horror… Yes, and we’re not even talking about the UK General Election. Instead, this week we head up our new books column with two crime-horror crossovers. One is by Clive Barker, one of the biggest names on the horror…
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