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Tom Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

By Paul Burke

29 June, 2022

Tom Boy is the sequel to Copy Boy, with Shelley Blanton-Stroud bringing us the further adventures of cub reporter Jane Benjamin in a tale that is lighter than her first outing. Back then, Jane got a job as a copy boy with Prospect, a San…

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On the Radar: Set course for Gokumon Island

By crimefictionlover

17 June, 2022

We love crime in translation on this site, so this week our excitement begins with the arrival of a Japanese classic that has been translated into English by Pushkin Vertigo. Death on Gokumon Island is by the great Seishi Yokomizo (1902-81) who took the Golden…

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On the Radar: Tokyo Traffic, and more

By crimefictionlover

12 June, 2020

Let’s get things going in our new books report with a title set in Japan. Tokyo Traffic is by American author Michael Pronko and shows us a side of the city not always prominent in Japanese crime fiction, which often has a bit of a…

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