NICOLE WATSON The Boundary. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Murder, dispossession and revenge fuel this passionate debut. It may have a body on the first page, but The Boundary is no ordinary crime novel. Yes, there is a lawyer-hero (the troubled Miranda Eversley), there is a good cop and a bad cop, bad lawyers, a weak...Crime Scene: Jean Bedford on Georgette Heyer’s crime novels
‘[Heyer is] a superlatively good writer of honourable escape.’ A S Byatt As a teenager, I devoured all of Georgette Heyer’s historical novels. These Old Shades and Powder and Patch have to remain among the best historical romances ever written, and Heyer...Crime Scene: BELINDA BAUER Finders Keepers. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
Crime and mayhem in a small village on the moors. Belinda Bauer’s first crime novel, Blacklands (2010), won the Crime Writers Association (UK) Gold Dagger Award. It was followed in 2011 by Darkside and the third in the series, Finders Keepers, is published this...Crime Scene: Jean Bedford on the Nordic Phenomenon
Stieg Larsson has done for the Scandinavian crime novel what Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code did for the conspiracy/adventure novel. Fortunately for crime fiction fans, most of the precursors and followers of Larsson are very good writers, with serious social issues to...Crime Scene: HANS KOPPEL She’s Never Coming Back. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
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Why watch Underbelly when this factual account of the 1970s Kiwi-led drug empire is so gripping? Richard Hall’s The Mr Asia Connection (originally published as Greed: the Mr Asia Connection in 1981) traces the rise of Terry Clark from small-time, small-town boy in New...
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