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...Barry Forshaw is the author of ‘Euro Noir’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life & Art wherever you listen...
...The Consultant by Im Seong-sun (Raven, £16.99, translated by An Seon Jae) is an unusual debut first published in Korea in 2010....
...New generations of directors step into the spotlight, such as Raven Jackson with All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, which is backed by buzzy distributor A24 and executive-produced by Barry Jenkins; and Alice...
...Barry Forshaw is the author of ‘Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Barry Forshaw is the author of ‘Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton, Raven Books, RRP£16.99, 576 pages Turton’s debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was a hard act to follow, but lightning has struck twice....
...A page-turning duo of novels: ingenious and sardonically written Body Language by AK Turner, (Zaffre, £8.99) has intuitive mortuary technician Cassie Raven listening to the dead (she believes she can pick...
...Barry Forshaw’s latest book is ‘Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...In the weighty Between Two Evils (Raven, RRP£12.99), a doctor has been beaten to death with a table leg....
...The Anarchists’ Club , by Alex Reeve, Raven Books, RRP£12.99 Reeve’s The House on Half Moon Street inaugurated a series set in Victorian London, with the protagonist Leo accused of killing his lover....
...The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , by Stuart Turton, Raven Books, RRP£14.99 Turton’s much-acclaimed debut is an ambitious crime riff on Groundhog Day....
...The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle , by Stuart Turton, Raven Books, RRP£14.99, 505 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Her novels offered no comfort to either the political left or right: one of her Wexford books, An Unkindness of Ravens, was critical of radical feminism, while many of her novels located the source of corruption...
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