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Paul Burke: Top five books of 2021

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It’s been a stellar year for crime fiction – no wonder sales of mysteries and thriller titles are still going up. Even the pandemic isn’t dampening the desire for the thrills and spills that come with a good crime novel. My CFL top five reviews…
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Good Cop Bad Cop by Simon Kernick

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Hero or villain? That’s the central question in Good Cop Bad Cop by the prolific British thriller author Simon Kernick. Is Met Detective Constable Chris Sketty an honest to goodness white knight, the hero of the Villa Amalfi siege, or a manipulative and calculating criminal…
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Tokyo trouble

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On the Radar — This week our new crime books column features the latest from Nicolas Obregon, a writer who sets his mysteries in Japan. He’s sending detective Iwata on the trail of an Unknown Male. We’re also bringing you a new political thriller by…
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Witness protection?

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On the Radar — A true mixture this week with forensics, secret government agencies, crimes out in the American wilderness, and a strange esoteric mystery too. In our lead book, the witness being protected doesn’t seem entirely safe… The Witness by Simon Kernick We kick…
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Death is death, is death...

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On the Radar — Death is death, is death, is death. It can happen in Restoration England, the frozen tundra of northern Sweden, a humid tar-paper shack in North Carolina, or on one of the Royal Navy’s finest ships. Someone dies and, thank goodness, the…
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