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Finding the perfect setting for books…

February 29, 2016 Mick Herron 0

Finding the perfect setting for books… For some years now, a large part of my creative life has taken place in a dismal collection of offices, spread across three floors, in a fictional borough of […]

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Top Ten Crime Films that won the Oscar For Best Picture

February 27, 2016 Bob Rivers 0

Top Ten Crime Films that won the Oscar For Best PictureI know the Oscars seem to last forever, can be unforgivably corny, and those speeches or intros where celebs read from tele-prompters kind of make […]

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DVD Review: Arthur and George

February 23, 2016 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

DVD Review: Arthur and George Arthur and George is based on Julian Barnes’s novel of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by a real-life cause célèbre. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock […]

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Why I Chose to Set My Story in Alaska

February 22, 2016 Rosamund Lupton 0

Vast and sparsely populated, you can isolate characters in Northern Alaska in a way that’s hard to match anywhere else on earth. Here, there’s no running to a house and pounding on the door for […]

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DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride

February 20, 2016 CHRISTOPHER Chan 0

DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride (We have a DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride by our film critic Christopher Chan who probes the depth of this hit tv series.) Improbably but thankfully, the BBC series Sherlock, […]

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Top Ten Songs About Crime

February 20, 2016 Libby Cudmore 0

Top Ten Songs About Crime In my debut novel, The Big Rewind, a mix tape leads my hipster detective, Jett Bennett, on a quest to solve her friend KitKat’s murder. I’ve always collected pop music, from […]

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Top Ten Valentine’s Day Mysteries

February 14, 2016 Bob Rivers 0

Top Ten Valentine’s Day Mysteries Yeah, the human race is pretty odd, we read mysteries set during Christmas and we even have a dedicated group of fans who love to read mysteries set during Valentine’s […]

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Top Ten Police Procedurals

February 11, 2016 Janice Cantore 0

Top Ten Police ProceduralsI have always been a voracious reader of all types of fiction, but I was drawn to crime fiction long before I became a police officer. Raymond Chandler, Joseph Wambaugh, Lawrence Block, […]

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Top Ten Hollywood Mysteries

February 9, 2016 Alison Gaylin 0

Having grown up devouring books like Helter Skelter and Hollywood Babylon, I understand the power of a Hollywood crime story: the shocking twists, the legendary players, the insidious role of the entertainment industry and its power to build […]

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Top Five Sources of Inspiration for M.C. Beaton

February 8, 2016 Andrew Gulli 0

Top Five Sources of Inspiration for M.C. Beaton I am often asked what inspired me to write and because my first book was a Regency romance, people often assume I was inspired by Jane Austen. […]

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