MJ McGrath

The Boy in the Snow by MJ McGrath

2 January, 2013

Half-Inuit, half-white, Edie Kiglatuk is a native of Ellesmere Island, in the furthest northern reaches of Canada. However this sequel to the very excellent White Heat takes her to Alaska. Ex-husband Sammy is racing in the Iditarod, an epic dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome,…

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White Heat

By crimefictionlover

26 December, 2012

Recommended by this site’s admin, CrimeFictionLover, White Heat received a five-star review and was his number one book of 2012. He wrote: “If you’ve not read it yet, allow hands-down winner White Heat to take you to a totally different environment, and into a new…

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CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2012

By crimefictionlover

23 December, 2012

You might want to call me Scrooge, but I wasn’t quite as excited about the books that came my way in 2012. Bah humbug. I barely awarded any five star ratings this year. That’s not to say I didn’t love my reading. Far from it,…

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NTN: White Heat by MJ McGrath

By crimefictionlover

24 November, 2012

Melanie McGrath studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, but instead of going on to join Britain’s governing class she decided to write excellent crime stories set in the far, far, far north of Canada. A commendable move on her part – and I’ll tell…

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NTN: Val McDermid tips the new wave of crime writing talent

By crimefictionlover

3 November, 2012

Scottish author Val McDermid is one of Britain’s finest crime fiction authors and not only has she produced a veritable library of books to prove it, but she has a full trophy cabinet to back the accolade. So as part of New Talent November 2012…

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The crimes they are a-changin’

By HoCaM

24 September, 2011

Jacques Filippi reports on Bouchercon 2011 — In crime fiction, the hero who saves everyone has dominated the genre for a long time. That hero is usually troubled by past events, has a big problem with the bottle and, mostly, is unable to sustain or…

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