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Iceland Noir 2016: open for business

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“There ain’t no cure for loving crime fiction,” said Val McDermid in her keynote speech, which opened the Iceland Noir festival in Reykjavik this evening. In an eloquent talk, she outlined – in great depth – a range of parallels between British crime fiction and Nordic…
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Rather Be the Devil

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Written by Ian Rankin — John Rebus might have retired from the police in 2007, but he just couldn’t stay away from the action. Since his return in Standing in Another Man’s Grave four years ago, Rebus has been helping his old department solve cold cases. One…
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Murderabilia

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Written by Craig Robertson — Many of us had a hobby when we were children. Stamp collecting perhaps? Stock-piling beer mats? These days they go mad for Pokemon – gotta catch them all! Those old collections may well have been consigned to the charity shop, the…
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The Dead Don't Boogie

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Written by Douglas Skelton — There must be something in the air up there in Bonny Scotland – it has more cracking crime writers than the calories in a deep-fried Mars Bar. This author even made the shortlist for the McIlvanney Prize for best Crime Book of the Year with Open…
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Out of Bounds by Val McDermid

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Chain-reading crime fiction is a seriously satisfying hobby, but not the most sociable if we’re honest. It’s all very well settling down to read another cracking tale, then sharing your views via Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads or – best of all  – CrimeFictionLover, but we all…
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A big year for Ian Rankin, and Rebus

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Today we say happy 56th birthday to Ian Rankin, and the date also marks the first appearance of Rebus in 1987. “It was 28 April. Wet, naturally, the grass percolating water as John Rebus walked to the grave of his father, dead five years to the day,”…
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