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Written by Barry Forshaw — Over an expansive 400-plus pages Barry Forshaw overwhelms and impresses with his detailed research and knowledge of the crime fiction genre. This shouldn’t be surprising though. Here’s a writer, broadcaster and journalist with an intimidating list of publications to his name, including the first UK biography of Stieg Larsson, The
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Written by Will Carver — He disappeared for a few years but Will Carver returned in style in 2018 with Good Samaritans. Detective Inspector Pace was then investigating two grisly murders and he returns in Nothing Important Happened Today and as in the previous novel he’s not centre stage. Instead, Carver takes us into a
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On the Radar — Every week you can find the latest crime fiction releases right here in our On the Radar column. This week we’ll start things off in Greenland, with a fascinating thriller by Danish author Mads Peder Nordbo. There are stops in London, New York and Yorkshire, featuring murder and mystery in each
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Arriving on the Channel 4 streaming service Walter Presents from 6 December, A Very Scandi Scandal offers a different perspective on Nordic noir with a hilarious Stockholm-based heist. Rather than bagging awards for suspense or drama, here’s a show that won Best Comedy at Sweden’s Kristallen Awards earlier this year and now we’ll be able
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Written by Bill Rapp — Former diplomat and US Government analyst Bill Rapp has brought his wealth of experience and research skills to bear in The Budapest Escape, third in a series of Cold War thrillers. The novel is set in Vienna and Budapest in 1956 when Hungary experience a revolution, the first major reaction
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Written by Max Allan Collins — As noted in his afterword, since returning to writing his Quarry novels in 2006, author Max Allan Collins has written them out of sequence, jumping around from time to time. This latest novel takes place in the mid-70s, after the events of Quarry’s Deal and before Quarry’s Vote. For
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On the Radar — This week our new crime books column features the latest from Nicolas Obregon, a writer who sets his mysteries in Japan. He’s sending detective Iwata on the trail of an Unknown Male. We’re also bringing you a new political thriller by Simon Kernick, a futuristic thriller by Roderick Hart, and Mark
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Written by Samuel Bjork, translated by Charlotte Barslund — Mia Krüger and Holger Munch are back in a much anticipated third instalment of Samuel Bjork’s riveting crime series set in Oslo, Norway. Munch headed the prestigious Special Unit in Mariboesgate for just over 10 years and managed to put together a specialist team of Norway’s
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Written by Martin Cruz Smith — On average, a new Arkady Renko novel only arrives every 4.75 years, so if you’ve read any of Martin Cruz Smith’s previous books featuring the Moscow detective you’ll know that The Siberian Dilemma is a reason to celebrate. Renko is a principled investigator in a system where the law
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One of the best things about the crime fiction genre is the passion of the authors working in it. They put no end of research into their books and will read the classics of the genre over and over again in order to learn from the best. Sometimes, they get hooked on it, diving so
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Of course we’ll call out cheating in crime novels whenever possible, such as when authors use the supernatural as a get-out at the end of a mystery. However, do feel free to call us hypocrites when we say we also love a crime story tinged with some Lovecraftian horror. That’s what we’ve got here with