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Barry Forshaw – Crime Fiction – A Reader’s Guide

Posted on January 19, 2020 by Johnny Mindlin

Barry Forshaw – Oldcastle Books    £12.99 Barry Forshaw is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction. Writer, commentator, editor, broadcaster and enthusiast, his fingerprints are everywhere. If anybody knows where the bodies are buried, it is he. Why … Continue reading →

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Mike Ripley – Angels And Others

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Johnny Mindlin

I first met Mike Ripley at a beano in 1990 to celebrate Collins Crime Club, for which occasion a special collection of stories was published. I can prove my claim about my whereabouts on that nefarious occasion in 1990, and … Continue reading →

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Toby Litt – Lifelike

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Johnny Mindlin

If your taste runs to the dead-pan, you could do worse than read Toby Litt. By turns funny, scabrous, touching, serious, playful and obsessive, his twelfth book, Life-like is presented with an absolutely straight face. How are you supposed to … Continue reading →

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