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Pulp Ink 2

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Edited by Nigel Bird and Chris Rhatigan – Pulp fiction (as a genre, not the movie) is intimately linked with the development of crime fiction, especially American crime fiction, over the past century. Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, Raymond Chandler, Paul Cain and others pecked out…
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Look who's writing for us IX

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Yes, folks, you can now refer to the Crime Fiction Lover team as the dirty dozen. With our new signing MyBookishWays we have 12 active contributors. Although, we like to think of ourselves as a ‘bloodstained’ dozen more than ‘dirty’. MyBookishWays is the nom-de-website of…
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Ghost Money

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Written by Andrew Nette — Ghost Money is the debut novel of Australian writer Andrew Nette, set in his one-time stomping ground Cambodia during the dying days of the Khmer Rouge. The country has been ravaged by decades of conflict, it’s fractured and politically unstable,…
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The Barcelona Brothers

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Written by Carlos Zanón — Ah, Barcelona, the city of Gaudi and Miro. A centre of Catalan culture and creativity both on canvas and on the football pitch. Well, that’s not quite the case in The Barcelona Brothers, the first of Carlos Zanon’s books to…
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Capture

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Written by Roger Smith — When we interviewed Roger Smith a couple of weeks ago, he told us that Capture is his darkest book yet. Can’t argue with that. This novel probes deeply into characters so broken, abused and thoroughly desperate that the voids of…
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PrintReviews

A Private Venus

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Written by Giorgio Scerbanenco – Giorgio Scerbanenco was an important figure in postwar Italian crime fiction, but is little known to English-speaking audiences because his novels were never translated into English. Hersilia Press is seeking to rectify our ignorance of Scerbanenco and other Italian crime…
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Book Club

Dare Me

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“At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something – anything – to begin. There’s something dangerous about the…
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