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Erin Britton: Top five books of 2024

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As 2024 draws to a close and the world becomes ever more crackers, it’s a good time to turn to comforting things such as murder, mayhem and the odd well-planned heist. From historical crime fiction to cosy mysteries and everything in between, the five novels…
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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

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While the intrepid members of the Thursday Murder Club are presumably busy with their investigations (and forthcoming Netflix film), Richard Osman introduces an eclectic new team of sleuths in the aptly named We Solve Murders. The spread of ages might be quite different this time…
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On the Radar: We read crime novels

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Yes, that’s what we do around here, and the folks in the novels solve the crimes, just as the title of Richard Osman’s latest novel tells us. The other books we have in this week’s report are less prosaic in their titling but equally interesting…
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Our post-Harrogate 2024 reading list...

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Every year, the Yorkshire town of Harrogate hosts one of the UK’s biggest book events – the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Whether you were there this year or followed proceedings from afar, it’s clear that books were the heroes. We try our best…
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