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The Vanishing Room by Andrew Lowe

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With British detective fiction so congested, crafting a compelling new detective, sidekick and ensemble seems a daunting prospect. Andrew Lowe managed this in fine style with the first entry in the Lennox and Blackwood series, The Whispering Bones, which introduced us to DCI Oswald Lennox…
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Meet the author: DS Butler

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Not many people know this, but I have Lincolnshire roots. However, until now I’ve not come across a crime series set in the north-east part of the county where my ancestors fished, made bricks and wove baskets going back into time immemorial. All that has…
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Seeing Red by Damien Boyd

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Going back to Poe’s C Auguste Dupin and Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, procedural mysteries have an illustrious history in crime fiction. Damien Boyd’s new Seeing Red fits that popular model quite neatly. This is his 16th book in the DI Nick Dixon Crime series, and…
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Interview: Neville Blackwood

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Authenticity is such an important quality in a police procedural crime novel. It’s an elusive quality in writing, too. As readers, we want to be captivated by the world the author gives us through the language they use, and to believe in it. This is…
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Interview: Damien Boyd

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Police investigations were something Damien Boyd became very familiar with during his 25-year career as a solicitor, which included a spell working for the Crown Prosecution Service. A crime fiction lover just like us, he began writing as a hobby and before long had begun…
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