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What if British crime novel heroes packed firepower?

https://joelgoldman.com/overlays/guaranteed-secured-loans-for-bad-credit.htm US and British crime novels are similar in many ways. After all, we’re human on both sides of the Atlantic. The protagonists have the same emotional issues, eccentricities, foibles and habits. And the heroes and heroines face the same challenges:

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What makes a spectacular literary opening gambit?

Now and again I come across a duff book. They can be sub-standard in all sorts of ways: badly written, boring, too slow to take off, a silly plot, characters that don’t ring true… If the first few pages don’t cut the mustard, grab me by the imagination and give it a good shake, I’m… Continue Reading What makes a spectacular literary opening gambit? »

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Sex and violence in crime novels – How much is too much?

A guest post from Kate Naylor Some readers love nothing better than being so traumatised they can’t sleep nights without leaving the lights blazing. Others tiptoe their way through the gore with eyes squeezed shut, more interested in the storyline than the detail. Some flip past sex scenes, re-joining the plot once

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