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Meet the author: Chris Dolley

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There needs to be an award for best route to crime fiction fame. If there were, surely Chris Dolley would be the bookies’ favourite. Originally from Bournemouth, he now lives in France. As a youngster Chris programmed computer games and campaigned for Cornish independence, but…
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The Heights by Ian Rankin

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Ian Rankin is one of the UK’s most recognisable authors, having created the hugely popular Rebus series, which began with Knots and Crosses in 1997. He’s one of the author’s responsible for the rise of Tartan noir over the last 40 years, has inspired a…
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Meet the author: Bernadette Bernson

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It’s fascinating how some novels come into being. The Whitby Protocol by Bernadette Bernson is a case in point. Writing crime fiction in English for the first time, the German author arrived in Whitby for a sojourn and was so taken by the personality of…
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Meet the author: Eduardo Robinson

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Sometimes, when one creative door is jammed shut, another one opens just down the hall. That’s what it was like for the Las Vegas-based actor Eduardo Robinson. When the actors’ strike hit Hollywood in 2023 he needed a new way to channel his creativity and…
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Lie To Me by DS Butler

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Every once in a while, it’s good to read outside of your comfort zone. Personally speaking, I have always been most interested in reading towards the more hard-boiled end of the crime fiction spectrum, for example the gritty realism of Don Winslow’s Cartel series, or…
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The Butterfly House by Teresa Solana

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Translated by Peter Bush — Teresa Solana’s The Butterfly House is an idiosyncratic crime novel in which murder, family complications, police politics and the economic woes of Barcelona become increasingly entangled. It follows Black Storms as the second instalment in Solana’s series featuring Deputy Inspector…
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