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Category: Books
Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge
What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?
Your ticket to an unforgiving Australian outback: The Dry by Jane Harper
Kiewarra hasn’t seen a cloud for two years but it’s been drowning in sin for generations.
Summer Before The Dark: Writing, alcohol and exile with literature’s émigrés in 1930s Belgium
They read, they write, they drink, they have affairs, they probe, they hide, they hurtle towards their own oblivion, their lives “lived out, in order to be described”.
The mystery of the missing crime novel: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block
Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.
Book review: The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda
A modern Japanese murder mystery with a jaded worldview in need of urgent investigation.
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