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Tag: crime fiction

Margaret Millar’s lost crime novel Vanish in an Instant has returned and it’s a killer read

What I love about Margaret Millar is that you know she’s playing with you but she only lets you get close enough to see the shadows of her deception.

Book review: Frédéric Dard’s vintage noir The Gravediggers’ Bread is begging to be exhumed

Dard is brilliant at describing the unspoken tones of noir – the creeping dread, the red-blooded lust and the vein-bulging tell-tale signs of sin’s smothering aftermaths.

Why you should read You Were Never Really Here in one sitting

And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.

The jury is in for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Execution of Justice

The case is open and shut. But when the incarcerated murderer hires a disreputable lawyer to investigate the possibility that it was someone else, the case inverts into a claustrophobic entanglement of red tape, sin and checkered pasts.

Unlocking a riveting Japanese mystery: Masako Togawa’s The Master Key review

Themes of security, honour, obligation and voyeurism converge into something enticing and engaging under Togawa’s pen.

The espionage of innocence: Probing John Le Carre’s new novel A Legacy of Spies

Lies fill rooms like smoke, choking and confusing the inhabitants while the truth slips out unnoticed, its remnants pushed into tall corners by the spreading fumes until nothing is distinguishable from the dark.

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