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Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2020

17 December, 2020

It’s not been the best year and travelling to more challenging past eras through the portal of modern historical crime novels and thrillers has been a welcome holiday from 2020. My selection includes books set in War World II, the dark and dangerous world of 19th century…

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To Cook a Bear

By Catherine Turnbull

26 October, 2020

This beguiling book by Mikael Niemi is a mash up of genres with historical crime, coming-of-age and literary novel tropes that manages to be reflective and page-turning. In Sweden in 1852 real life revivalist Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, and Jussi, a runaway Sami boy, turn detective and use…

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To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi

By Catherine Turnbull

7 October, 2020

Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner — A young boy and a father figure in the woods are collecting botanical specimens, a bucolic scene a few pages in from the opening to this beguiling historical crime novel. The man is Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, who was the real-life leader of a…

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On the Radar: It's a big week for new crime fiction book releases

By crimefictionlover

20 August, 2020

Soon summer will be shutting down and when September comes publishers like to fire their big guns. That’s what we’ve got in our new books column this week, folks – a salvo of big names continuing their big series including Steve Cavanagh, Nicci French and…

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Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2020

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On the Radar: It's a big week for new crime fiction book releases

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