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A Dangerous Fiction by Barbara Rogan

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The crime fiction genre is packed with quizzical private detectives and flawed but brilliant police men and women, so it made a refreshing change to meet Jo Donovan, literary agent. A young widow, she runs the successful Hamish-Donovan Agency in New York and it is…
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Interview: Walter Mosley

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Walter Mosley is the internationally acclaimed author of poetry, plays, essays and, most importantly to us, crime fiction. He was born in California in 1952 to an African-American father from Louisiana, and a mother of Russian Jewish extraction. It was his mother who inspired him…
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Calculated in Death Review

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Written by JD Robb — The first book published in JD Robb’s In Death series was Naked in Death, published back in 1995. Since then the author – who also writes under the name Nora Robberts – has released two hardcover In Death books per…
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Web of the City

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Written by Harlan Ellison — Hard Case Crime is back on the re-issue beat, this time with Ellison’s debut, written whilst he finished his Army training and first published in 1958. To add value, the publisher has given the book another great cover by Glen…
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A classic revisited: Cop Hater

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“The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.” It’s just 24 words, but no three sentences have ever held so much significance on the flyleaf of a book. Each…
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