Crime fiction
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Letters: As it happened my father was also a teacher at Larchfield prep school (1928-30) and when he moved on Auden took his place
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What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney; My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood; The Last Act of Hattie Hoffman by Mindy Mejia; The Acid Test by Élmer Mendoza; The Riviera Express by TP Fielden
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Patricia Highsmith is involved with a married woman in this fascinating fictional biography of the late writer
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The Book of Mirrors by EO Chirovici; The Trophy Child by Paula Daly; The Death of Kings by Rennie Airth; The Intrusions by Stav Sherez; Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolás Obregón
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Nicola Davis sits down with Dr Kathryn Harkup to discuss a shared love of crime fiction and the chemistry contained within their poisonous plots
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With its feverish energy, opulent nightlife, culture and chaos, the Brazilian megalopolis is a perfect setting for Joe Thomas’s debut crime thriller
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Dirk Kurbjuweit, author of the bestselling German novel Fear – based on his terrifying experience of being stalked – reflects on fact, fiction and the former hell of his everyday life
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Reading fiction is a variety of voyeurism already, but these stories brilliantly examine the most sinister varieties of looking
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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s gourmand private eye Pepe Carvalho gets another case in new novel by Carlos Zanón
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Who eats as well as Inspector Montalbano? It’s a mystery – but you can, as Kate Young demonstrates how to put together this easy Sicilian classic
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The critics had their say, now it’s time for readers to pick their books of the year – from diaries to dictionaries and emperors to existentialists
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As well as masterful exercises in suspense and social realism, the best fiction in this genre is also a rich repository of slang. And that’s no Archbishop Laud
Paperback writer Translating Agatha Christie into Icelandic: 'One clue took 10 years'