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Crime fiction heroes head to Harrogate

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Friday 19 July will see some of the world’s finest crime authors heading to Harrogate for the 2013 Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. With three days of live interviews and panel discussions planned, the bill includes Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell, Kate Atkinson, Lee Child and…
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Christmas is Murder

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Written by Val McDermid — The old adage that good things come in small packages could have been coined for Christmas Is Murder – it’s a little gem of a publication, available on download only. It includes the short stories A Traditional Christmas and A…
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New Talent November 2012 recap

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A little over a month ago, we started New Talent November 2012 with a review of Sam Hawken’s Tequila Sunset. During our theme month, we looked at a whole range of new authors and their books – from 1920s hardboiled in Michael Mayo’s debut Jimmy…
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Dinner with Val McDermid

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Porcini Restaurant in West Dulwich, London, will be the setting when Val McDermid sits down to dinner with a room full of crime fiction loving guests on Thursday 15 November. Hosted by Dulwich Books, the woman dubbed the Queen of Crime will be discussing her…
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Guest column: TF Muir on Tartan Noir

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Not long ago, the town of Stirling hosted Bloody Scotland, a literary festival dedicated to the one of the country’s finest exports: crime fiction. Tartan noir has arguably become as well known as Scotch whisky. But how can we account for the disproportionate success of…
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The Vanishing Point

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Written by Val McDermid — OK, it’s confession time. I haven’t read a Val McDermid novel before. However I have read plenty about the author and her work, and been told by my fellow Crime Fiction Lovers that her books are well worth it. So…
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