The Perfect Crime edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Vaseem Khan (Harper Colins, March 2022) It was not that long ago that crime fiction was mainly divided into American...
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Under The Radar Collage Every year there are piles of books released with a fanfare of manufactured publicity by publishers and certain reviewers, while other equally...
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Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine No. 93 George Easter has just sent out the latest issue of his Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine (No. 93) and it is another stellar...
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Collage of cosy covers After a recent overload of action thrillers, I have turned to more cosier reading for the start of October. The Man Who Died Twice by Richard...
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Canberra Weekly 9 September 2021 In last week’s Canberra Weekly, I reviewed new novels by three of the world’s best crime fiction writers. Twenty Years...
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The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin (Canongate) Often referred to as the ‘godfather of tartan noir’, William McIlvanney changed the face...
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