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• Get Plugged In #3

  
  Cormac Writes — Authority: 123
  Try this, you can buy that perfect gift and help out kids at the same time. Wolfmont Press is giving you, "The Gift of Murder." Nineteen stories of mystery, thriller and crime fiction revolving around the winter holidays...including one by our own Sandra Seamans . Best of all, all proceeds go to Toys For ...
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• Review: THE COMPLAINTS, Ian Rankin

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 520
  Orion Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7528-8952-8, 381 pages. Malcolm Fox, Foxy, works in the Dark Side of the Complaints and Conduct section of Edinburghs Lothian and Borders Police HQ. Their job is to keep the cops honest - investigate grievances about cops, hints of corruption, smells of backhanders. Foxy and his ...
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• Review: THE FAITHFUL SPY, Alex Berenson

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 520
  Random House Australia, Bantam, June 2006 This book review was first published elsewhere at the time of writing and is being re-published here. I am using it as my contribution to Crime Fiction Alphabet meme for the Letter F. John Wells is a mole, a CIA agent who has been under cover in Afghanistan infiltrating ...
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• Look out! A Redhead!

  
  Lady, That's My Skull — Authority: 527
  While Redheads dont always carry guns, they are always dangerous. And much like guns, should always be treated as if they are fully loaded and have a hair-trigger. Inside Detective (July 1946).
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• Tokyo Year Zero

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  David Peace, perhaps best known for The Red Riding Quartet , which was made into a successful TV series here in the UK and The Damned Utd , a fictional biography of Brian Clough which was made into a film, until recently lived in Tokyo. Tokyo Year Zero is the first in a trilogy of novels, the second of which has ...
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• Review: LIVING WITH YOUR KIDS IS MURDER, Mike Befeler

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 520
  This book, #2 in the Paul Jacobsen Geezer-Lit Mystery series, is the first book Ive completed reading on my new Kindle . I noticed also that this book is available as an audio from Audible . Finding that it was available on Kindle was great because the paper versions dont appear to be available yet here in ...
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• Crime Fiction Alphabet: Summarising the letter E

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 520
  The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme The letter for the week beginning 2 November was the letter E Contributions to your Crime Fiction Reading Crime Watch - Ellery Queen - Craig Confessions of a Mystery Novelist - Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie - Margot every distils into ...
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• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest is the much-anticipated final instalment of Swedish writer Stiegg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy . The weekend it was published it was already sat on my bookshelf (having pre-ordered it) and I came across two reviews of it. The first was a panel of reviewers on Radio 4 (I ...
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• Darkly Dreaming Dexter

  
  Profmike's Weblog — Authority: 108
  Darkly Draeming Dexter is the first in Jeff Lindsay’s series of Dexter novels that have since been adapted into a successful TV series. The novel (and indeed all subsequent novels) are, on the one hand, straightforward whodunnits, but with one rather ingenious difference. Dexter, a police department pathologist, ...
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• Huff Post on Crime Fiction: What do you think?

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 119
  Huffington Post book blogger Jason Pinter has a column about "The State of the Crime Novel." Its a fairly Yankocentric appraisal of current crime writing by a series of top US reviewers. It includes this from veteran mystery columnist Oline H. Cogdill: "One of the main missions of crime novels is to paint a timely ...
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• Review: TRIPTYCH, Karen Slaughter

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 520
  This is a book review that was originally published elsewhere. Publisher: Random House Australia, August 2006 Georgia is a Southern American state that author Karin Slaughter knows well. She grew up there. TRIPTYCH is a stand-alone thriller set in Atlanta, Georgia but for me the setting didnt seem particularly ...
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• HEDGEBURNERS - Goldie Alexander (review by Carmel Shute)

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  Cover Image Author Goldie Alexander Publisher Interactive Publications Copyright 2009 ISBN 9781921479267 No of Pages Price Book Synopsis Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges? Anna Simpson insists that her best friend Zach Santisi help her find the culprits. ...
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• Childrens Author Fired up over Neglect of Tweens Literature

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  CHILDREN’S AUTHOR FIRED UP OVER NEGLECT OF ‘’’TWEENS’ LITERATURE Melbourne children’s writer, Goldie Alexander, is so fired up about the lack of media and critical attention to ‘‘tweens’ books – for readers between eight and twelve  – that she’s surprised hedges all over Melbourne haven’t ...
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• Hedgeburners

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  ISBN   9781921479267   Blurb from the Book Who is setting fire to the old cypress hedges? Anna Simpson insists that her best friend Zach Santisi help her find the culprits. However, Zach must also care for his numerous pets and cope with his dad threatening to sell them if his next report card isn’t ...
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• Detective Inspector Huss, by Helene Tursten

  
  The World of Books — Authority: 103
  Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys’ network, with the first families of ...
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• Currently Reading - The Billionaires Curse, Richard Newsome

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  Text have started an annual prize to be awarded to an outstanding unpublished manuscript, aiming to discover wonderful new books for young adults and children by Australian and New Zealand writers.  The Billionaires Curse is the first winner. From the Blurb: Gerald has become the richest thirteen-year-old on the ...
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• PALOS VERDES BLUE - John Shannon

  
  Jen's Book Thoughts — Authority: 122
  FIRST LINE: "A small boy stood in front of the pickup holding a plastic machine gun that flashed its red transparent barrel as it clacked away gruesomely." PALOS VERDES BLUE was my first experience reading John Shannon, but hes no stranger to the crime fiction genre. PALOS VERDES BLUE is the eleventh novel in ...
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• Don Bartlett: Interview of a Translator (part 3)

  
  Euro Crime — Authority: 470
  Parts 1 and 2 of the interview with translater Don Bartlett, can be found here and here... Jo Nesbø and Don Bartlett have been short-listed for the CWA International Dagger for The Redbreast (2007) and The Redeemer (2009). EC: Which Scandinavian crime authors would you like to see published in English? DB: ...
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• Looking for somewhere to kill someone: suggestions please

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 119
  I’m always looking for a good spot in which to kill someone. Still, as a crime writer, I rarely have to ask about potential locations for a good murder. People are keen to suggest that the blood be spilled on their doorstep. Most recently, it was a pastor and his wife. To be fair, they actually said I ought to ...
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• Loot the Moon - Review

  
  The Hungry Detective — Authority: 414
  I spent a couple weeks reading BLOODS A ROVER by James Ellroy. I am not likely to read a denser book until Mr. Ellroys next work. I turned to Mark Arsenaults LOOT THE MOON as a palate cleanser more than anything else. LOOT THE MOON is Mr. Arsenaults fourth book and second in the Billy Povich series after ...
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