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ISSUE 4

 
Andy McDermott talks to Crime Files about his debut novel
On making risky decisions, no guarantees, reasoning and goals - read about how Andy McDermott came to write his stunning debut novel The Hunt for Atlantis...
 

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Ann Granger's Not So Brief Encounter
Talking about the killing off of fondly remembered characters and new births to look forward to...
 

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Simon Spurrier talks about his new novel Contract
Murder for money... read a book for free. Spurrier talks about his chilling new novel and the interesting campaign to match...
 

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Domestic Disturbance
Debut Headline author Sam Hayes explains how real life can be more terrifying than fiction...
 


 
ISSUE 3

 
Mad, Bad or Dangerous: Anatomy of a Villain

Karen Rose speaks about her new novel COUNT TO TEN, out in June 2007. 'An effective villain is one we honestly believe may not be stoppable. That means we aren’t in control. The criminals are in control. Not us. That’s scary...'
 

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I Predict a Riot: Bateman
Colin’s new novel, I PREDICT A RIOT, has to be his best yet. It’s an epic of urban calamity as James ‘Marsh’ Mallow of the Belfast CID tries to take down the city’s mobsters and politicians who are making a mockery of law and order...
 

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The 'Jekyll and Hyde' Life of Paul Doherty
By day, he is a headmaster of a Catholic comprehensive (11–18: 1700 students). By night, he write's about horrid, cunning murder in Ancient Egypt, Rome or medieval England...
 

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Horse's Arse: Charlie Owen
The inspiration for his novel? Easy, thirty years in the police service, boy and man. On the streets most of the time with some amazing company, seeing and doing things most people never come across...
 

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Scavenger: David Morrell
SCAVENGER is a high-tech hunt for a hundred-year-old time capsule. crime files asks David Morrell why he was inspired to write this story...
 

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Rediscover the Greatest Detective of Them All
Instantly recognisable to millions, Sherlock Holmes is known and revered worldwide through his iconic image on film and TV...
 

ISSUE 2

 
The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld

Headline Review editor Mary-Anne Harrington on the ultimate New York story...
 

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Never Fear - Scott Frost
'Of all the mysteries I’ve come across, none seems to have the lasting power of the question I’m asked most often when talking about my work, either privately or at a reading...'
 

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The Many Sides of Andrew Nugent
The lawyer, the mokn, the traveller, the author... the many sides of Andrew Nugent...
 

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Vena Cork on Green Eye - The Monster in all of us...

'Cambridge holds a very special place in my heart because it’s where I met the love of my life. I’d just done a very bad audition for Footlights, which he, fortunately, missed because, true to form as I subsequently discovered, he was running late...'
 

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Clio Gray's Guardians of the Key
A stunning debut novel of intrigue, conspiracy and murder set in London and Italy in 1805.
 

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Michael Jecks Comes of Age, Twenty-One Books on
'Not many authors are lucky enough to have a series last to twenty-one books. A first contract is hard to win and I’m on my eighth...'
 


 
ISSUE 1

 
Take a Close Look - at the New Bestsellers from Martina Cole

Martina Cole’s novels look long and hard at the consequences of violence – what happens to people who’ve been violently treated and how they cope, or don’t. Her latest book, THE TAKE – already a hardback No. 1...
 

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James Patterson on 2006

'This year, 2006, is a very exciting one for me. I’m bringing out new hardbacks and paperbacks in each of my series, as well as two new stand-alone novels, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them...'
 

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Who is Flint?

Paul Eddy, bestselling author of the thriller series starring FBI undercover cop Grace Flint, breaks cover…
 

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Reality and Other Things

Barbara Nadel casts a spell over the CWA Dagger judges…
 

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The Rules of Attraction

Crime writer Brian Freeman talks about the creative process behind his acclaimed debut novel IMMORAL...
 

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Croissants, Christie and Café au Lait

Louise Penny paints in the background to STILL LIFE…
 

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Fear is the Key

Ami Smithson, Headline’s Creative Director and jacket designer for SMOKED, dares to be different…
 

 

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