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How a Good Piece of Detective Fiction Beats a Bad Piece Every time!

I know that’s pretty obvious but, on the other hand, if we always stick to our tried and trusted crime writers, most importantly, we won’t discover any new jewels but, at the same time, we probably won’t come across any poor ones. That’s fine, I guess, because it also means we won’t waste our money […]

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Robert B Parker’s Memory Lives on in Detective Fiction through Mike Lupica – Thank Goodness for That!

Very early in my blog, I wrote a couple of posts about Robert B Parker and I referred to him as the godfather of detective fiction, citing him as the inspiration behind many of the writers we enjoy today. He died much too young in 2010 but, thankfully, a number of other detective fiction authors

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I don’t know how I discovered John Lescroart but he gave me Dismas Hardy and Wyatt Hunt and I will be forever grateful!

That statement is pretty much true in that I don’t know exactly how I came across John Lescroart, his books and his great characters but, at the same time, that doesn’t seem to be uncommon with my reading! As I’ve said in a few posts, as I have read more and more in this genre,

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Robert Goddard – Something a Little Different but Well Worth Trying

Robert Goddard’s first novel ‘Past Caring’ was published in 1986 and I think that it must have been shortly after that when my wife and I discovered him. He has since published more than twenty books and they tend to come out every eighteen months to two years. Strangely, he fits the profile of a

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If You Haven’t Heard of Jake Needham, Jack Shepherd and Sam Tay, You’re Missing Something!

I’ve really no idea how I came across Jake Needham but I bought the first of his books in 2014. I imagine the route was through a search of ‘if you like books by…try this’ but I’m afraid I just can’t remember. He spends a lot of his time in Asia and his stories are

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Martin Walker and a Surprisingly Interesting Detective – Bruno Courreges

As they used to say on Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Google it!), ‘and now for something completely different’! I really don’t remember how I discovered Martin Walker and his local French policeman, Bruno Courreges, but someone must have introduced me to him and I am very grateful that they did! The only thing that worries

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