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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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First Born by Will Dean

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When you read First Born by Will Dean, you will discover that it is a book of two halves – literally. This twisty murder mystery doesn’t so much take unexpected turns as flip a complete 180. Without giving away any spoilers, just when you think…
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Ten of the best crime novels about journalists

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Crime Fiction Lover contributor Kate Vane’s new crime novel, Still You Sleep, features online journalist Tilda Green and crime reporter Freddie Stone as they investigate the death of a young woman from a drug overdose. Here’s her pick of journalists in crime fiction. Journalists make…
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Red Snow

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Written by Will Dean — Shortlisted for Not the Booker and recommended by the Zoe Ball Book Club, and not to mention a five-star review here on Crime Fiction Lover, Will Dean’s debut, Dark Pines, had everyone talking when it came out this time last…
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Interview: Will Dean

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Originally from the East Midlands in the UK, Will Dean now lives in a wooden house he built in the middle of a Swedish forest. He uses the authenticity of this setting to write crime fiction novels that seem as true to the Nordic noir…
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NTN: Ten to taste part 1

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We’d love to bring you reviews of every new crime book released onto the market – mainstream, indie and self-published. But the honest truth is we can’t even count them, let alone read all of them. What we can do is bring you sampler features…
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