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The complete guide to the Ruth Galloway series

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Forensic archeologist Dr Ruth Galloway and her onetime lover DCI Harry Nelson first appeared in print way back in 2009, and their on/off, will they/won’t they relationship has been tantalising readers ever since. However, alongside the domestic shenanigans are some mighty fine crime mysteries that…
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Book Club

The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths

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Double CFL Award winner Elly Griffiths has been writing about forensic archeologist Dr Ruth Galloway since 2009. We’re up to book 14, and while some writers might be flagging by this point The Locked Room reveals an author right on the top of her game….
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CIS: My classics by Arne Dahl

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When Swedish literary author Jan Arnald writes crime fiction, he uses the name Arne Dahl. His books about Stockholm’s Intercrime Squad – such as The Blinded Man, Bad Blood and To the Top of the Mountain – are being translated into English and gaining plenty…
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CIS: A guide to the Martin Beck series

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Between 1965 and 75, the husband and wife team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (above) wrote a series of 10 police procedurals set in Stockholm, all carrying the subtitle ‘The Story of a Crime’. Their work was distinct from other crime fiction at the…
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