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First look: The Craftsman for iPad

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Mystery and thriller apps are getting more and more sophisticated. We’ve seen a couple of good ones lately, and the latest to bash through that barrier between reading words and playing an interactive game is The Craftsman by Portal Entertainment. It’s a chilling mystery that…
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The Blood Whisperer

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Good authors are confident enough to leave an established character behind, and introduce a new one. Zoë Sharp fits that bill. After establishing bodyguard and investigator Charlie Fox as a readers’ favourite, she now brings us forensics expert Kelly Jacks. Jacks has a past, which…
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Solo by William Boyd

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Solo is the latest of the James Bond continuation novels, which far outnumber the original books but have never matched Ian Fleming for unflinching brutality, thrilling action sequences and an obsessive accretion of period detail relating to fine dining, men’s tailoring and posh booze. William…
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The Blood Whisperer by Zoë Sharp

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You may be familiar with irrepressible bodyguard and investigator Charlie Fox, who brought a new level of independence, grit and determination to female detectives everywhere. Author Zoë Sharp has dedicated 10 books and a novella to Fox’s adventures so far. However with The Blood Whisperer…
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Long Gone Man by Phyllis Smallman

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The Canadian crime writer Phyllis Smallman has already garnered a loyal following for her series of mystery novels featuring Florida bartender Sherri Travis. in 2007, the author was the first recipient of the Crime Writers of Canada’s Unhanged Arthur Award for unpublished authors, and was…
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Interview: JB Turner

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Launched earlier this year, Exhibit A Books is an independent imprint bringing together a stable of up-and-coming crime authors working in popular areas of crime fiction, but aiming to bring something a little different to the shelf. One of them is the Edinburgh writer JB…
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The Frozen Dead

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Written by Bernard Minier — There is something disquieting about the icy wilderness of the Pyrenees. Diane Berg, a young forensic psychologist, is accustomed to mountains: after all, she is Swiss and has trained with the prestigious Professor Spitzner at the University of Geneva. But the…
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