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01 January 2001

We love writers here. They’re busy people, but they just gotta write. Duncan Jepson is the award-winning director and producer of five feature…

01 January 2001

Mr. Hammett and Mr. Chandler famously took crime out of the drawing room and gave it to the kind of people, at the bottom of the ladder, who really…

01 January 2001

That Saharan sand is blowing across the country right now, making itself very unwelcome inside your lungs. One way to ensure you get some fresh…

01 January 2001

With Easter approaching, some of writing big guns are cranking out product. Big product. Here are some shiny new hardbacks that are coming out on…

01 January 2001

Beloved characters never really die. Albert Campion appeared in 22 novels and short story collections, written by Margery Allingham. The…

01 January 2001

You’d expect Easter to deliver up some televisual goodies, and next weekend duly serves up the beginning of two very different crime series.…

01 January 2001

With Easter done and dusted, you’ll be relieved to know that Crime Thriller Fella is back, so we can all get back to the really important…

01 January 2001

I sit in a hotel room in a catatonic state – waiting for the phone to ring. Bring, bring. When I pick it up a voice asks: ‘Have you ever…

01 January 2001

You may have already have seen this on Uncle Tom Cobley’s Crime Blog - let’s face it, you’re usually way ahead of me on these things - but…

01 January 2001

I hope your concentration levels are in tip-top condition today, because this is going to be a long one. Those telly people are positively hurling…

01 January 2001

This week we welcome back to your screen two transatlantic crime thriller icons. It all looks rather tense. First up is Hannibal, who returns to…

01 January 2001

It’s become a bit of a cliché to say that a lot of Scandi Crime is preoccupied with the effects of unlawful acts on the community, but Roslund…