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The setting is somewhere between bucolic and bleak: an isolated farm somewhere in America. It’s the 1960s, at least judging by the car and the television. Young Francisca is following…
Lisbeth Salander, the cult figure and title character of the acclaimed Millennium book series created by Stieg Larsson, will return to the screen in The Girl in the Spider’s Web,…
As a card-carrying Mancunian, raised on a tough estate near Strangeways, writing a crime series about Manchester was an inevitability. Civic pride runs in my veins – unsurprising, since a…
I just hope I live long enough. And I hope that Peter Crowther of PS Art Publishing lives long enough. For what, I hear you ask? Why, to complete what…
Sitting down in front of a computer (or a notepad) faced with a blank page is a very scary moment. Every new book starts this way, though – a germ…
Retribution Road by Antonin Varenne (trans. Sam Taylor) MacLehose Press, £18.99, 525 pages Varenne is not lacking in audacity. Bed of Nails undertook a radical shaking-up of the detective story,…
Sadly, the next issue of Crime Scene (not Crime Time!) will be the last. From The Bookseller: Crime reviewer Barry Forshaw, a regular contributor to the magazine, told The Bookseller:…
So it’s been a while, right? Scarred, the third novel in the Henning Juul series, was released in the UK in the beginning of 2014, if I’m not very much…
A nor’easter hits Paradise, Massachusetts, and when the storm has passed, three bodies come to the surface, as it were. One is an unknown man, only recently killed, the other…
Steph Broadribb: Let’s talk about sex. Sex in crime fiction, specifically. Okay, so I’ll go first – I’m not embarrassed – there’s a couple of sex scenes in my debut…