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Tortuous tinsel: 10 crime books for Christmas

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Ah, the good old Christmas season. A time of family, a time of goodwill, a time of heightened emotion and… sometimes… deadly passion. Christmas-themed crime fiction seems to be making a comeback, with many popular authors penning short stories and Amazon one-offs for the season….
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NTN: How to find new crime authors

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Finding a great new book or an exciting new author is like discovering gold – or, since we’re talking crime here, stealing some gold and getting away with it! Everyone has their favorite MO, and here are several ways of finding exciting new crime books….
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The Bone Collection

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Written by Kathy Reichs — Temperance Brennan has come a long way in 18 books, but readers have never really learned how she got into forensic anthropology in the first place. Until now, that is. Because one of the four novellas that make up Kathy…
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CIS: 75 years of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

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With the world at war, England under bombardment, espionage running rampant, and sinister forces blanketing half the globe, late 1941 cannot have been the right time to start a new publishing venture. Yet that is the dark moment when Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine was launched, and…
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Gargoyle Pixie Dog by Bill Todd

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This collection opens with the bright and breezy novella, Gargoyle Pixie Dog. Private detective Danny Lancaster, who features in all the stories, is a partly disabled army veteran plying his trade on the streets of Brighton. The seaside town offers a backdrop of fading Georgian…
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