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QUIZ: Name that UK crime show tune

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This weekend we have a musical treat for lovers of British crime fiction, and a chance to win big thanks to Penguin Books. First of all, watch the YouTube video embedded above. Well, not so much watch as listen. Playing you will hear clips from…
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Interview: Jake Woodhouse

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New author Jake Woodhouse recently secured a publishing deal with none other than Penguin Books. Set in Amsterdam, his debut novel is After the Silence and will bring us a dark tale of child abduction, paedophilia and a new detective called Jaap Rykel. It’s also…
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Look who's writing for us XI

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Today we’re welcoming a brand new writer to the Crime Fiction Lover team. Andre Paine is a journalist based in London who regularly covers music, the arts and entertainment. But his true passion behind all that is books, and crime books in particular. Patricia Highsmith,…
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Book Club

Ordinary Grace

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It’s the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. William Kent Kreuger’s story concerns the Drum family, but more particularly the brothers Frank and Jake. Their idyllic summer is blighted by the discovery of first one, and then another, body. These…
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Top 20 songs for crime fiction lovers

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Many a contemporary crime fiction novel rocks along to a certain soundtrack – authors often use them to engage the reader a little more and bring in some touch points from modern culture to embellish their twisted plotlines. So we thought we’d put together a…
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Ordinary Grace

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Written by William Kent Krueger — William Kent Krueger is already well known for his Cork O’Conner mystery series, but he has given us something a little bit different in Ordinary Grace. It’s the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota, where…
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