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Crimson Rose by MJ Trow

By MarinaSofia

17 December, 2013

‘Everything or nothing, which is it to be?’ one of the characters asks at one point in MJ Trow’s latest historical novel, Crimson Rose. The author certainly seems to have made the decision to go for broke and throw everything at this story. He has…

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Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

By crimefictionlover

11 December, 2013

Translated by Don Bartlett — Although Cockroaches is the latest Harry Hole book from Jo Nesbo to appear in English, it was actually the second one written in the original Norwegian. It fits in between The Bat and The Redbreast, if you’re a stickler for…

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The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood

By MarinaSofia

6 December, 2013

Big cities are anonymous places and it’s all too easy to pass unobserved, even among neighbours. This is the theme explored by Alex Marwood in her eagerly anticipated second novel, a standalone thriller which promises to be every bit as gripping as her much-praised debut…

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Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon

By MarinaSofia

3 December, 2013

Translated by David Bellos — ‘Apparent age 32, height 169 cm…’ Thus begins the first ever Maigret novel by Simenon, published in serial form in France in 1930 and translated into English originally as Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett. Now with the title Pietr the…

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Morning Frost by James Henry

By DavidPrestidge

30 November, 2013

This is the third in a series of prequels featuring a younger William ‘Jack’ Frost. The author of the original Frost series, RD Wingfield, died in 2007 but in 2011 James Henry (a pseudonym for James Gurbutt and Henry Sutton) wrote First Frost and followed…

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NTN: Dead Gone by Luca Veste

By crimefictionlover

29 November, 2013

Luca Veste was one of the first writers to contribute to Crime Fiction Lover, under the pseudonym GuiltyConscience. I can remember how happy he was when I told him one day that he was ‘a crime fiction machine’. I said it on account of all…

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NTN: Ioanna Bourazopoulou interview

By MarinaSofia

26 November, 2013

Compared to the Scandinavians and the French, Greek crime fiction authors seem few and far between. However Ioanna Bourazopoulou is a Greek author who has seen her novel What Lot’s Wife Saw translated into English. Set in a future when large parts of Europe are…

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The Greenland Breach by Bernard Besson

By MarinaSofia

22 November, 2013

Translated by Julie Rose — You can count on Bernard Besson, former senior chief of staff for the French intelligence services, to be topical and well-informed. His thrillers are always leading edge in terms of subject matter and spyware methodology. After addressing topics such as…

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Crimson Rose by MJ Trow

Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood

Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon

Morning Frost by James Henry

NTN: Dead Gone by Luca Veste

NTN: Ioanna Bourazopoulou interview

The Greenland Breach by Bernard Besson

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