Retrieval by Colin Dunne (Hamlyn, 1985) Colin Dunne wrote four novels in the 1980s which sat comfortably in that literary space between spy novel and tough guy...
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Canberra Weekly – 13 June 2019 This week’s column featured three new crime novels by Alex North, James Ellroy and Fiona Erskine. I previously did longer...
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Knife by Jo Nesbo Knife is the chilling twelfth entry in Norwegian author Jo Nesbo’s bestselling series about Oslo detective Harry Hole. Nesbo claims about Knife, that...
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Founder Member by John Gardner (Corgi, 1973) The Airline Pirates by John Gardner (Coronet, 1972) Two early seventies covers from John Gardner’s semi-comic series...
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Where The Dead Go by Sarah Bailey Sarah Bailey’s debut crime novel, The Dark Lake, won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. It featured damaged...
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