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Santa's sack of new crime releases...

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On the Radar — This is our last latest books news column for 2013, so let’s look at what Santa Claus has brought. We begin with an outing for Washington DC’s busiest psychological profiler, Alex Cross. Scottish author Malcolm Mackay rounds off his Glasgow Trilogy,…
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Lucy: Top five books of 2013

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2013 has been a great year for crime fiction with some excellent new talent coming onto the scene. Because of this I found it particularly difficult to pick my favourite crime books of the year. All five on my list have enough quality to be…
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Dead Man's Time by Peter James

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Dead Man’s Time is the ninth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Detective Roy Grace series, which is usually set in and around the author’s favourite town: Brighton. However, this novel begins is Brooklyn, USA, in February 1922. A young boy lies in bed, having…
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First look: The Craftsman for iPad

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Mystery and thriller apps are getting more and more sophisticated. We’ve seen a couple of good ones lately, and the latest to bash through that barrier between reading words and playing an interactive game is The Craftsman by Portal Entertainment. It’s a chilling mystery that…
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Events: an Autumn of crime

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If you missed the annual summer pilgrimage to Harrogate for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, fear not. Autumn has a bumper crop of crime author events from bookshop appearances to major festivals. Appropriately for a former rock star (in Norway, that is), Jo…
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Take Peter James' secret tour of Brighton

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The outgoing Crime Writers Association chair Peter James is set to launch a new website in collaboration with Brighton’s tourist board that promotes both his books, and the city in which they are set. To mark the launch, a special tour and competition is being…
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Darkness, death and wine. Yes?

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On the Radar — This Thursday our book report features the crime fiction debut of Sunday Times historical fiction reviewer Nick Rennison, as well as the welcome return of Crime Writers Association outgoing chairman Peter James with another novel in his series set in Brighton….
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Not Dead Yet

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This book finds itself on our Recommended list after being chosen as Lucy Conlon‘s favourite crime book of 2012. She said: “I downloaded this book for my Kindle on a 20p special offer and it was definitely the bargain of a lifetime. Not Dead Yet…
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