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On the Radar: Botanical noir is a thing!?!

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In Britain, across Canada and the US, all over the Northern Hemisphere flowers are blooming… foliage is flourishing… vines are creeping… plants are proliferating… and in some cases poisons are brewing in their deadly roots. We’d never really thought about it but botanical noir could…
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Interview: Andrew Raymond

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A couple of years back, Scottish crime fiction author Andrew Raymond took a brief sojourn away from writing his DCI Lomond novels for a research trip to South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Andrew had a cunning plan, which is about to come to fruition…
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Meet the author: Toni Viola

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Horse racing. It’s an unusual route into crime fiction but it was a winning bet for former detective Toni Viola. One day, he answered an ad in a racing magazine and began writing articles about the sport. Books on the subject followed, and then he…
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First Look: The Tailor by Tim Sullivan

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Tim Sullivan’s neurodivergent detective, George Cross, returns for an eighth case in The Tailor on 16 July 2026. Once again, the Bristol-based detective sergeant will be working a murder. He’s solved cases involving a politician, a dentist, a bookseller, a teacher and more… this time…
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