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Dead On Arrival Mike Lawson Harper £6.99 ISBN 9780007256297 When I reviewed Lawson's first Joe DeMarco novel, The Inside Ring, (in Crime...

Master Of The Delta Thomas H Cook Quercus £16.99 ISBN 9781847242112 There is a temptation to divide Thomas Cook’s novels into ‘northerns’ a...

In the intertwined histories of Clare International, a conglomerate grown from a soap company started in Boston in the 19th century, and of ...

Charles McCarry must get bored with being called the American LeCarre, but Paul Christopher was his George Smiley, his name just as symboli...

Chelsea Cain is the author of Heart Sick and Sweet Heart, two novels that cast a knowing and often funny eye on the lighthearted (so to spea...

Only a few moments into On The Rocks , as DH Lawrence and Frieda von Richtofen are engaged in a dish-smashing brawl, I passed a note to my w...

The Spies Of Warsaw Alan Furst Weidenfeld & Nicholson 16.99 ISBN 9780297855415 'I think you like this kind of war,' Anna Szarbek...

INTRODUCTION: In a piece about The Wire, Dennis Lehane referred to David Simon loving a piece of dialogue from The Wild Bunch: Pike Bishop (...

NOTE: This essay is NOT about Fred Vargas, though I could have digressed to discuss the retitling of the book in English translation, or the...

NOTE: I've been asked a couple of times what it meant to be the 'books editor' of a magazine called Petrolhead, which I was for ...

John Murray £7.99 ISBN 9781848540958 Down River appears in paperback in this country following its capture of the Edgar Award for best nove...

Do you know Jeri Southern’s version of Cole Porter’s ‘Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye’? The next line in the song, of course, is ‘I want to die a ...