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Feature ArticlesSwedish crime supremo Henning Mankell has bagged an honorary degree from Scotland's St Andrews University. It is the victim's perspective that matters to Karin Slaughter...Danuta Kean in The Independent on a writer who pushed the envelope
Gary Lovisi's new book, The Antique Trader Collectible Price Guide, lists almost 4,000 of the most collectible and most valuable key American mass-market paperbacks with over 1,000 of the most sexy, lurid and cool covers shown in glorious full-color Danny Lee at Indy.com on a unique crime book store... Jim Huang's store, The Mystery Company, is not what you'd expect in a small, independent bookstore.
Sponsors have come and gone over the decades, but in 2006 Duncan Lawrie, the private bank, stepped in with greatly increased prize-money. Now worth £20,000, the CWA Dagger is the richest crime-writing prize in the world; Natash Cooper in The Times on the latest contenders Crime Time favourite Andrew Taylor takes us into the dark would of his new novel, Bleeding Heart Square...
We asked Ms Gardiner to give us the skinny on her new novel...
Getting inside the minds of criminals with Mr Morley The author of the wonderfully atmospheric Jim Stringer historical crime novels with a few snippets on how readers can meet him... In the Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski uncovers the underrated Crime Master Jack O'Connell
Mr James Changes Trains... Adrian McKinty talks about his murderous homage to James Joyce Mick Herron on his latest work, Reconstrucion Practical Guides To The Current Crime Scenes Of Europe COMING SOON IN CRIME TIME: A series of Practical Guides to the current crime scenes of Europe, sourced from each featured country. I've begun to wonder whether I should have created an entirely new sub-genre: the 'meteorological thriller'. 'Sandstorm', 'Hurricane', 'Blizzard' and 'Hail' could have topped the bestseller lists for years, making me my fortune... Simenon: Trojan Horse For Crime In Translation Barry Forshaw in The Times on Simenon Cumming On Quiet Death In Xingjiang One of the finest of current espionage novelists, Charles Cumming, writes in the Guardian on unrest in Xinjiang (and his new novel, Typhoon) Sara Paretsky -in London for her new book - talks to Barry Forshaw for The Independent Mark Campbell on Carol Anne Davis' grim (and unputdownable) catalogue of murderous duos The author of Word Made Flesh and Skin Palace on night panics... Robert B Parker talks to Sam Leith in the Telegraph The crimes and misdemeanours of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were put under the spotlight earlier this month for an event called 'Gaslit Vices' at Waterstones in Hampstead
The author of Neon Noir on a Face of Film Noir...
The eagerly-awaited eighth outing for D.I. Joe Faraday
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