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Appetite for destruction

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On the Radar — It looks like 24 August is going to be a big date on the crime fiction calendar with releases from veteran crime writing women on both sides of the Atlantic – Sue Grafton and Val McDermid. But today we want to…
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NTN: Rage Against the Dying

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Written by Becky Masterman — New talent is inevitably associated with precocious writers who started young and stuck at it. Look at Roger Hobbs, now the proud owner of a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Ghostman, which he wrote while still at college. Hanna…
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CIS: The first female detectives

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We’ve just been celebrating the 123rd birthday of Agatha Christie, who created spinster sleuth Miss Marple in 1926. But if you thought Marple was the first female literary detective – albeit, an amateur – you might be surprised to learn you were out by several…
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W is for... Grafton?

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On the Radar — September usually brings the crime fiction publishers out of their deck chairs and into the sales market, and 2013 is no exception. This week’s report brings you a period witchcraft mystery, drama in the NYPD, a student game that goes badly wrong,…
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Kinsey and Me

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Written by Sue Grafton – Best known for her ‘Alphabet’ series of crime novels featuring feisty female private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton will be a name familiar to many crime fiction followers. It’s more than 30 years since we were introduced to Kinsey, and…
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Meet the woman behind Kinsey

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On the Radar — Feeling the chill of winter? Maybe it’s the excuse everyone needs to hibernate on the sofa with your favourite genre – crime fiction, what else? And while you do that, here are four books to look forward to. If you’re a…
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V is for Vengeance

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Written by Sue Grafton – V is for Vengeance is the 22nd of Sue Grafton’s very popular Kinsey Millhone novels. Millhone, a private investigator in fictional Santa Teresa (a stand-in for Santa Barbara), California, has entranced readers since Grafton wrote A is for Alibi in 1982. Time…
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Special Report: CrimeFest 2012

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For Crime Fiction Lovers in the UK, the CrimeFest convention held in Bristol is one of the key dates on the crime writing calendar. Authors from around the world headed to the city for this year’s event which began on Thursday, and we managed to…
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