After a successful run of high quality adventure thrillers in the MacLean/Bagley style, Gavin Lyall turned towards spy thrillers in 1982 with a short series about Major...
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The criminal reading year is now well underway, with some very good 2024 books by Simon Rowell, Dinuka McKenzie, Matthew Blake and Gerald Seymour already out! March...
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George Easter has just sent out the latest edition of his Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine (No. 102) and it is a bumper issue featuring the best reads of 2023 and the...
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Books featuring women on the edge, and the ledge, have dominated my crime reading in early February 2024. Tipping Point By Dinuka McKenzie (Harper Collins, 31 January...
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Plantation pulp was a popular, but unpleasant, sub-genre championed by many publishers in the 1970s. British publisher New English Library (NEL) was a particularly...
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