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CIS: My classics by Graeme Macrae Burnet

29 September, 2017

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s first novel, The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2013. But it was his second novel that really caught people’s imaginations. His Bloody Project turned one of those ‘skeleton in the cupboard’ moments that family…

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CIS: The 20 greatest classic crime movies of all time

By crimefictionlover

12 September, 2014

Part of the joy of reading a fantastic new crime novel is to later see it turned into a film. It’s happened just about since the dawn of cinema a century or so ago – if a book sells well, it’ll reach the big screen….

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CIS: My classics by TJ Cooke

By crimefictionlover

10 September, 2014

TJ Cooke’s Defending Elton was the legal thriller that proved to be so much more than just a legal thriller. Not only is the main character a lawyer – someone who altruistically defends the helpless and hapless – he’s also a killer. The book’s so…

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The 12 best private detectives in crime fiction

By crimefictionlover

9 December, 2013

Recently, we brought you The PI Case Files, giving you a peek inside the Crime Fiction Lover filing cabinet at some notes we’ve been compiling on private detectives from across the genre. Now, thanks to some excellent detective work by our own David Prestidge, we’re…

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DispatchesFromNoir: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By DispatchesFromNoir

7 June, 2013

I’ve been reading crime fiction almost since I learned to read. My tastes in crime fiction have changed markedly over the years, but that’s the great thing about this genre. It grows and evolves with us, always offering top-notch writing in many different styles. Encyclopedia…

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Mystery package from The Folio Society

By crimefictionlover

25 May, 2013

“Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.” Thus begins The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, widely acclaimed to be one of the greatest crime fiction novels ever written. The words leap from…

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Hammett Unwritten

By MyBookishWays

8 February, 2013

Written by Owen Fitzstephen — Samuel Dashiell Hammett was the author of five novels and many short stories and is one of the most famous authors of hardboiled detective fiction. Born in 1894, Hammett left school when he was only 13 and eventually went to…

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CIS: My classics by Graeme Macrae Burnet

CIS: The 20 greatest classic crime movies of all time

CIS: My classics by TJ Cooke

The 12 best private detectives in crime fiction

DispatchesFromNoir: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

Mystery package from The Folio Society

Hammett Unwritten

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