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	<title>Curious Book Fans &#187; Crime fiction</title>
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		<title>I Will Have Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9139/i-will-have-vengeance-maurizio-de-giovanni</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maurizio De Giovanni]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The year is 1931, the setting the Italian city of Naples. Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardo is working late one evening when he is summoned to the famous San Carlo Opera House where a mysterious death has been reported. There he is faced with the dead body of Maestro Vezzi, one of the country’s foremost operatic singers and a particular favourite of Il Duce. The singer is sitting at a table in his dressing room, an arm out-stretched, a tear running down one cheek and a shard of glass from a smashed mirror sticking out of his neck. Vezzi’s death could be the result of a tragic accident but for a couple of items in the room that Ricciardo thinks odd. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Crime of Reporting</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2012/fiction-books/9100/the-newsroom-mafia-oswald-pereira</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oswald Pereira]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase a quote from the Sharukh Khan film Don, ‘capturing the Don is not difficult, just impossible’. Oswald Pereira’s Newsroom Mafia explores a perennially fascinating terrain for fans of any kind of Mafia fiction. Pereira used to be a crime reporter in Mumbai before he retired, so he draws on his experiences to tell his story. Newsroom Mafia is the tale of the invincible Don Narayan Swamy and the struggle of ‘supercop’ Donald Fernandez to bring him to book. Narayan Swamy is based on the infamous godfather of Matunga Vardarajan Mudaliar and bears full testimony to the accuracy of the gangster films that crop up in Bollywood. Supporting him the Don has an entourage of journalists who run planted stories in exchange for lucrative remuneration and bottles of scotch. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Water-blue Eyes</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8636/water-blue-eyes-domingo-villar</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domingo Villar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Galician tourist board really ought to be paying author Domingo Villar; his Leo Caldas novels set in the coastal city of Vigo are an enticing advertisement for the region. Imagine having long leisurely seafood lunches with a glass or two of wine; follow that with a quick paddle before going back to work or even a drive to a country vineyard. It’s almost worth dealing with the occasional mutilated corpse to lead that kind of life. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Smokeheads</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8603/smokeheads-doug-johnstone</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Johnstone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four thirty something friends head to the Scottish island of Islay for a weekend of drug taking and whisky tasting. Friends since their university days, it was a mutual passion for whisky that brought them together but since then their lives have taken different paths. Brash, confident Roddy makes a fortune working in futures; Luke, the quiet one, is a musician who records film soundtracks; happily married Ethan works for the Royal Bank of Scotland; and Adam sells tacky souvenirs (and the odd bottle of Scotch) to tourists in a shop on the Royal Mile. For three of the lads this is a party weekend, a chance to let of steam and get steaming drunk, but one of them has an ulterior motive for the trip. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Anger Mode</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8551/anger-mode-stefan-tegenfalk</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stefan Tegenfalk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stefan Tegenfalk’s Anger Mode gets off to a dramatic and shocking start, setting the pace for the next 430 pages. A judge coming home from a meeting brutally murders a taxi driver; previously of good demeanour, the judge seems like unlikely murderer. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>1222</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8512/1222-anne-holt</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Holt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anne Holt’s 1222 is a modern take on the Agatha Christie ‘locked room’ novel with a long cast list and a steadily rising body count. This works well with the confined setting and the uncertainty over when help might arrive adds to the tension. The diversity of the passengers also stirs things up a bit even if the choice is rather contrived. The range of characters may reflect a typical train journey but with so many it’s impossible to do much in the way of character development and the result is confusing. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Bloody Meadow</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8420/william-ryan-the-bloody-meadow</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Ryan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Bloody Meadow is the second novel by William Ryan to feature Aleksei Korolev, a detective Working for the Moscow Criminal Investigation Division in 1930s Russia. It follows on from The Holy Thief which was very well reviewed and shortlisted for a number of crime fiction awards. The Bloody Meadow could be read as a stand-alone novel, but I would recommend that a reader starts with The Holy Thief, as it provided some of Korolev's background; he continues to grow as a character through the second novel. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Blackhouse</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8400/the-blackhouse-peter-may</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eilidhcatriona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter May]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Blackhouse is a novel by Peter May, set on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the first in a series (trilogy according to Amazon) featuring Detective Fin Macleod. Having escaped Lewis at the age of eighteen, Fin is packed off to the island from Edinburgh when a murder is committed in a similar manner to one he has been investigating in Edinburgh. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Vault</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8314/the-vault-by-ruth-rendell</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8314/the-vault-by-ruth-rendell#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Rendell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a fan of Ruth Rendell’s work, you will have noticed that recently two unthinkable things have happened. Firstly, in The Monster in the Box, her much loved Chief Inspector Wexford retired, and then in her latest book The Vault, she has produced her first sequel in her catalogue of over seventy titles. The Vault is not just unusual in being a sequel, however, it also brings the two distinct strands of her work (the Wexford novel and the non-Wexford crime thriller) together into an intriguing and compelling whole. from www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Burning Wire</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8205/the-burning-wire-lincoln-rhyme</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8205/the-burning-wire-lincoln-rhyme#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>koshkha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffery Deaver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can't see it, you can't smell it, and you can't taste it, hear it or touch it but it's all around us and it has the potential to be deadly. In the right (or rather wrong) hands, it can kill and in the hands of a killer with a grudge it might just be the ultimate weapon of destruction – how can you guard against an attack using something that's all around us? It doesn't need to be smuggled through security or bought from a dodgy rogue nation or flown into airspace and spread through strange carrier systems. Electricity is the killer already in our midst and it's the technique chosen by the deadly killer or killers at the heart of Jeffrey Deaver's latest novel 'The Burning Wire'. The setting is New York City, the time is now and the man with the job of preventing a quite literal melt-down in the city is Deaver's most successful forensic super sleuth, the wheelchair bound Lincoln Rhyme. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Burning Soul</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8189/john-connolly-the-burning-soul</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Connolly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Burning Soul is the tenth full-length novel from John Connolly to feature Charlie Parker as the central character. The books could best be characterised as thrillers with supernatural overtones. Towards the beginning of the series (which started with Every Dead Thing), the novels were characterised by extreme and graphic violence, but, as the series has evolved, Connolly has more and more relied on fine descriptive prose to build tension and a sense of menace which only occasionally explodes. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Temporary Perfections</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8021/temporary-perfections-gianrico-carofiglio</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/8021/temporary-perfections-gianrico-carofiglio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gianrico Carofiglio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guido Guerrieri is a defence counsel lawyer living and working in the city of Bari on Italy’s Adriatic coast. He runs his own small but successful office with a team of loyal staff and has plenty of business to keep things ticking over nicely so when an old friend, a criminal lawyer, asks him to take on some work that he feels is not his area of expertise, Guido reluctantly listens to what he has to say. A young woman, a student from Bari but living in Rome has gone missing and, with little to work on, the police are about to shelve the case. Manuela’s family hope that Guerrieri can run a legal eye over the paperwork and spot any errors in the police handling of the investigation that might give them the leverage they need to get the case re-opened. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>One Good Turn</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7663/one-good-turn-by-kate-atkinson</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contemporary fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kate Atkinson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Matryoshka is the word of the day”, says one of the characters in One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson, her second crime novel to feature Jackson Brodie.  And the structure of the book does seem to take its lead from the Russian nesting dolls which crop up from time to time throughout the story.  I tend to like books with a strong structure, and certainly Atkinson adopts one here; she is playing with the form of the crime novel, although not to the detriment of either plot or character development.
One Good Turn picks up Jackson Brodie about two years after the end of Case Histories. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Broken</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7506/broken-karin-fossum</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>collingwood21</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karin Fossum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alvar is 42, and a loner in a small Norwegian town. His family are all dead, he has never had a relationship and or acquired any friends; even choosing to get a cat for company takes a Herculean effort on his part. He is careful, neat and methodical in all that he does, a conscientious worker who ignores the outside world save to carry out his work, which he does with great care and pride. Alvar's simple life is built around the comfort of routines, his time divided between his neat bachelor flat and his job in the local gallery, where his knowledge of art at least allows him to make conversation with people. While he has never been in love, this is not to say Alvar cannot feel emotion. Upon see a dramatic new oil painting hung in the gallery, he is consumed with passion: "It was a huge and violent painting and he surrendered to it," believing that "it's my painting, I've been looking for this, this is the one for me". Alvar is quite happy in his solitude and his contemplation of art, until one day when he is brave enough to do a good deed by way of offering a cup of coffee to a half-frozen young drug addict that will start to unravel his carefully constructed existence into an uncontrollable mess. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>A Capital Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7484/a-capital-crime-laura-wilson</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Laura Wilson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laura Wilson’s “A Capital Crime” is based on the true cases of John Evans, hanged for the murder of his daughter and John Christie, a neighbour of Evans who was found guilty and hanged for the murder of four women. Wilson cleverly weaves the real events into a fictional background. Most of what’s already been written about the case – known commonly as the “Ten Rillington Place murders” – is an examination of the evidence, looking in particular at Evans as a victim and making the point that he was convicted on shaky evidence. Wilson, on the other hand, has the benefit of using a fictional narration to look at the case from the point of view of the police. Her decision to end the story on an ambiguous note is one that challenges most writers on the case: while Evans could not have committed the later murders, there was never any evidence strong enough to completely exonerate him of the murder of his wife and child. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>An Agent of Deceit</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7282/an-agent-of-deceit-chris-morgan-jones</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7282/an-agent-of-deceit-chris-morgan-jones#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Morgan Jones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Agent of Deceit is an intelligent and convincing thriller set in the world of international finance. The story is told alternatively from the perspective of two lead characters.

Lock is a Dutch lawyer, brought up in the UK, who is employed by a shadowy Russian businessman. Over the course of a decade or so finds himself irrevocably tied to an increasingly complex network of companies whose chief purpose appears to be to disguise the passage of large sums of money originating somewhere in Russia. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the Wasp Season</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7189/the-end-of-the-wasp-season-denise-mina</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elkiedee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denise Mina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The End of the Wasp Season is 2nd in a series about DS Alex Morrow, a Glaswegian police detective who was introduced in Still Midnight, although I think it could be enjoyed by someone who has not read that book. 

It is a crime novel but there is not much of a mystery for the reader, as the story opens with the murder of a young woman, Sarah, in a big house by two teenage boys. One strand of the narrative is about Thomas, one of the killers, and the background to his action. Another is about the police investigation into the crime, led by Morrow, and also about the politics of her workplace.  From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Whodunnit?</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/7162/the-body-in-the-back-seat-salil-desai</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salil Desai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first few pages of The Body in the Back Seat seem to slow you down, possibly because the drama of the car thief spotting a body in the back seat of the car he has just stolen is a little underwhelming. And because the identity of the body is obvious from the moment the man’s wife goes to the police station and tries to report him missing but the author refrains from confirming our suspicions till much later.

However from the moment Senior Inspector Saralkar comes onstage with PI Motkar at his side, the book picks up. Saralkar is convinced that the apparent suicide victim has been murdered and he is equally convinced that one of the family or a business partner must have done it, since that is his pet psychological theory. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of the Penny Dreadful</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6841/the-return-of-the-penny-dreadful-ibne-safi</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Basu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibne Safi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For many people the discovery of an Urdu penny dreadful may be an eye opener, but Chennai based Blaft publications tied up with Tranquebar to bring out the four novels which belonged to Ibne Safi’s Jasusi Duniya series. Ibne Safi, born in Allahabad district, migrated to Karachi and there steadily churned out four novels a month, the first of which Dil-e-Mujrim, was priced at less than a rupee when it came out the 1940’s. The world he describes is a cosmopolitan one, a city that has no name or location though it is somewhere in Hindustan. This unique metro boasts bars called Arlecchino and Rialto where beautiful girls in short skirts smoke and drink and rub shoulders with criminals of the likes of the evil American Doctor Dread or the four foot high Finch who can masquerade as a monkey thanks to his agility. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>If I Never See You Again</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6627/if-i-never-see-you-again-niamh-oconnor</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elkiedee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niamh O'Connor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Set in recession hit Dublin, this first novel in a planned new series introduces Detective Inspector Jo Birmingham. She is having a bit of a tough time. Her marriage has broken up, and it doesn’t help that her ex is her boss and is living with his secretary. Her teenage son Rory is worrying her, and she has a young baby too. She is desperate for a chance to prove herself at work. When a murder investigation comes up she asks to lead on it. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes from the Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6610/echoes-of-the-dead-johan-theorin</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elkiedee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thriller fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johan Theorin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than twenty years ago, Julia’s 5 year old son Jens went missing and was never found. They were on holiday visiting her parents. She doesn’t know what happened to him, and is now depressed, living on sickness benefits and drinking too much wine. Then her father, Gerlof, rings for the first time in nearly a year, to tell her someone has sent him Jens’ sandal. This prompts Julia and Gerlof to start trying to find out what really happened all those years ago, in the hope that, if nothing else, they can move on. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Death on a Galician Shore</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6560/death-on-a-galician-shore-domingo-villar</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6560/death-on-a-galician-shore-domingo-villar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domingo Villar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like so many other crime novels, Death on a Galician Shore opens with the discovery of a body, in this case that of Justo Castelo, a fisherman. His corpse is found washed up near the harbour of the quiet fishing village of Panxon and the death appears to be a simple suicide. However, the results of the victim’s post mortem raise several questions for police inspector Leo Caldas and his assistant, Rafael Estevez, supporting the view of the victim’s sister that Justo Castelo did not kill himself. The investigation leads Caldas to retrace the case of a shipwreck over a decade earlier in which Castelo had been one of three sailors who managed to swim to shore, leaving the boat’s skipper to die, and, as his enquiries progress, he has to find a way to penetrate this highly superstitious and tight knit maritime community. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Killer’s Art</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6303/the-killer%e2%80%99s-art-mari-jungstedt</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mari Jungstedt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian crime fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that the picturesque Baltic island of Gotland could be the scene of so many brutal murders? The Killer’s Art is the fourth instalment of Mari Jungstedt’s Inspector Knutas series set on the Swedish island and it opens with one of the most shocking murders yet. Previously Jungstedt has set her stories in rural Gotland, but now she moves to the main town, the historic port of Visby for her main crime scene.

Early one Sunday morning in the heart of winter, a hotel worker on her way to start an early shift makes a gruesome discovery: she finds the body of well known local art dealer Egon Wallin hanging from one of the towers of Visby’s ancient city walls. From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>The Darkest Room</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6041/the-darkest-room-johan-theorin</link>
		<comments>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/6041/the-darkest-room-johan-theorin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thriller fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johan Theorin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Darkest Room is a deeply atmospheric tale and one that doesn’t fit so comfortably under the banner “crime fiction” in spite of attempts by booksellers to hook it up with some of the recent Scandinavian best sellers of that genre. It’s set for the main part on the Swedish island of Oland just as winter starts to set in. Katrine and Joakim, a young married couple from Stockholm and their two young children arrive on Oland, having bought the dilapidated old farmhouse at Eel Point. 
From www.curiousbookfans.co.uk]]></description>
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		<title>Hypothermia</title>
		<link>http://www.curiousbookfans.co.uk/2011/fiction-books/5848/hypothermia-arnaldur-indridason</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Bor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnaldur Indridason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scandinavian crime fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sixth of Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason’s novels featuring the lugubrious Erlendur, ‘Hypothermia’ is something of a departure from the format of those that preceded it. Here Erlendur more or less goes it alone as he carries out his own off the record investigation into the case of the apparent suicide of a woman at her holiday home in Iceland’s Lake District; Erlendur is not directly connected with the case but becomes involved when it is found that the dead woman lived on his patch. Everything seems straightforward until a couple of days later when a friend of the dead woman asks to see him; she tells him that there is something that doesn’t seem quite right with the events around Maria’s death and that, although Maria had been depressed for several years since the death of her mother, with whom she and her husband, Baldvin, lived, she doesn’t believe that she would have killed herself.
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