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	<title>Best Crime Books</title>
	
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		<title>THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION DAGGER AWARDS 2009</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Crime Writers’ Association is delighted to announce the shortlists for a number of this year’s Daggers - the prestigious awards that celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing in 2009.
The CWA Dagger Awards are the longest established literary awards in the UK and are internationally recognised as a mark of excellence and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Above Suspicion by Lynda La Plante (ITV 1 Drama)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another TV serial killer saga from La Plante, who must have slaughtered more prostitutes in her career than  you or I have had warm goats cheese tarts. &#8216;Above Suspicion&#8217; features the doziest female copper ever seen on the small screen, in the tightest skirt and tightest blouse ever seen in Scotland Yard, all corseted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Crime of 2008 by Elvis McBeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cold In Hand by John Harvey
Here we go again, another year older and deeper in debt, literally, if you believe everything you read in the papers. But there are still a lot of great crime novels out there to keep your mind off the credit crunch this winter, so stick around and check out these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Prince of Darkness by Graham Hurley</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest D.I. Faraday novel, The Price Of Darkness by Graham Hurley starts off with what looks like a professional hit on a property developer. The dead man was involved in an M.O.D. site in Portsmouth with potentially rich pickings. Then a government minister is assassinated. What’s the connection? Also, there’s a problem with ex-copper and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Crime Books and The Worst Crime and Mystery Thrillers (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several elements come together to make a good novel: writing style, plot and overall atmosphere. Very occasionally a novel&#8217;s unique atmosphere can elevate an OK book into a classic. Take Gerald Kerch&#8217;s &#8216;Night and the City&#8217;, possibly the most atmospheric novel about London since Dickens trod the city&#8217;s shabby streets and undoubtedly a great book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favourite Novel by Mark Timlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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THE BIG SLEEP by RAYMOND CHANDLER
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler’s masterpiece. The best crime novel ever written bar none. Almost single handedly Chandler invented the genre of the hard drinking, hard smoking, hard loving, sharply dressed, first person, private detective, with a wisecrack for every occasion, and a bullet for every bad guy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macavity Award Nominations 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystery Readers International (Mystery Readers Journal) announces the Macavity Award nominations for  works published in 2007. The awards will be presented during opening ceremonies at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention (Baltimore, October 2008).
MACAVITY NOMINEES:
Best Mystery Novel
o	Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House)
o	The Unquiet by John Connolly (Hodder &#38; Stoughton*/Atria)
o	Blood of Paradise by David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 CWA Daggers Short-Lists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortlists for the 2008 CWA / Duncan Lawrie Daggers were announced at a reception at the British Library on 3rd June.
The authors shortlisted for the £20,000 Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the world&#8217;s largest prize for a crime novel, are James Lee Burke (The Tin Roof Blowdown), Colin Cotterill (Coroner&#8217;s Lunch), Frances Fyfield (Blood From Stone), Steve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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There is an eternal debate about whether the best Crime Fiction can ever hold its head up as the equal of the literary novel. Just as &#8216;proper&#8217; authors like Martin Amis, William Boyd and even Charles Dickens can and have turned their hand to mystery fiction, so there exists a strata of &#8216;crime&#8217; novelists who really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 Longlist Announced
The longlist was announced today for one of the most prestigious awards in the international crime writing calendar - the 4th Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the only literary prize of its kind to be voted for by the general public.
 This year&#8217;s list is a vibrant and diverse mix [...]]]></description>
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