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Stella Rimington on Rip Tide, Part Two
Posted On: July 11, 2011
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Stella Rimington on Rip Tide, Part Two

Stella Rimington discusses her latest Liz Carlyle novel, her real-life role in MI5, and her love for reading thrillers.

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Tom Rob Smith on The Secret Speech
Posted On: July 8, 2011
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Tom Rob Smith on The Secret Speech

Tom Rob Smith’s follow-up to wildly successsful debut novel Child 44 is republished this month.

Watch out for a competition to win amazing signed, limited edition numbered bound copies of his latest novel, Agent 6, next week on Bookdagger!

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Stella Rimington on Rip Tide, Part One
Posted On: July 6, 2011
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Stella Rimington on Rip Tide, Part One

Stella Rimington’s Rip Tide is published via Bloomsbury later this month.

Watch the author discussing her latest Liz Carlyle novel, and the differences between her protagonist’s fictional role in MI5, and her own experiences.

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Blood Line
Posted On: July 1, 2011
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Blood Line

Bestselling author Lynda La Plante discusses the plot of her latest thriller, Bloodline.

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Michael Jecks discusses King’s Gold
Posted On: June 24, 2011
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Michael Jecks discusses King’s Gold

Watch Michael Jecks discussing medieval history, writer’s block, his main characters, and how he became a writer.

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Rosie
Posted On: June 20, 2011
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Rosie

Watch Rosie’s trailer and read an extract from the first in a brilliant new thriller series by Nicci French, Blue Monday.

Look out for more trailers, and a competition to win copies of Blue Monday this Thursday on Bookdagger!

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Alan
Posted On: June 13, 2011
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Alan

Watch Alan’s trailer and read an extract from the first in a brilliant new thriller series by Nicci French, Blue Monday.

Look out for more trailers, and a competition to win copies of Blue Monday later this month on Bookdagger!

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Frieda
Posted On: June 6, 2011
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Frieda

Watch Frieda’s trailer and read an extract from the first in a brilliant new thriller series by Nicci French, Blue Monday.

Look out for more trailers, and a competition to win copies of Blue Monday later this month on Bookdagger!

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The Queen of Suspense
Posted On: May 31, 2011
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The Queen of Suspense

Mary Higgins Clark takes readers back to the neighborhood in the Bronx where she grew up, her old school, and her home in Spring Lake, NJ… where there are skeletons in the backyard.

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Watch the trailer for Mercy and enter the competition to win one of five copies! [closed]
Posted On: May 24, 2011
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Watch the trailer for Mercy and enter the competition to win one of five copies! [closed]

You’ve read the interviews with author Jussi Adler-Olsen, now watch the teaser trailer for Mercy for your chance to win a copy of the book!

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Jussi Adler-Olsen interviewed – part two
Posted On: May 20, 2011
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Jussi Adler-Olsen interviewed – part two

Jussi Adler-Olsen, Scandinavia’s new bestselling crime writing phenomenon, reveals how he came to be published and gives his views on the Scandinavian fiction trend.

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Jussi Adler-Olsen interviewed – part one
Posted On: May 19, 2011
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Jussi Adler-Olsen interviewed – part one

Jussi Adler-Olsen discusses the characters in his internationally acclaimed bestseller, Mercy.

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Douglas Starr on Killer of Little Shepherds
Posted On: March 18, 2011
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Douglas Starr on Killer of Little Shepherds

Douglas Starr, author of The Killer of Little Shepherds, discusses how real life crime-fighters managed to solve crimes before modern technology.

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Win signed proof copies of The Death Instinct, by Jed Rubenfeld [closed]
Posted On: March 11, 2011
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Win signed proof copies of The Death Instinct, by Jed Rubenfeld [closed]

Watch the video, read the extract and answer two questions to win a signed proof copy of Jed Rubenfeld’s spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul.

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Craig Robertson on Random
Posted On: February 23, 2011
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Craig Robertson on Random

When a random killer strikes, is it only what it seems…? Author Craig Robertson discusses Random.

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The Leopard
Posted On: February 2, 2011
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The Leopard

Soon the first snow will come. And then he will appear again… The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.

Watch the massively popular trailer to Jo Nesbo’s new Harry Hole crime novel The Leopard.

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Vince Flynn on the origins of Mitch Rapp
Posted On: January 17, 2011
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Vince Flynn on the origins of Mitch Rapp

International No. 1 bestselling author Vince Flynn reveals the origins of Mitch Rapp, the lethal, CIA-trained killing machine of American Assassin, published this month.

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Tobias Jones on The Salati Case
Posted On: December 16, 2010
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Tobias Jones on The Salati Case

Tobias Jones introduces his first novel, set in the foggy northern city of Parma in winter time, and his detective Castagnetti, and suggests why Italy is hard to beat as a setting for crime fiction. Watch for a Tobias Jones competition later this month.

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Sarah Rayne talks about her darkly atmospheric thriller House of the Lost
Posted On: August 6, 2010
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Sarah Rayne talks about her darkly atmospheric thriller House of the Lost

When novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote Norfolk house in which his cousin Charmery was murdered, he believes it will bring him closer to the truth about her death. It will also be the ideal place to finish his new book.

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Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin
Posted On: May 13, 2010
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Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin

Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 but has never been recognised. In this video, Lilin tells us more about his experiences in Siberian Education, his memoir of growing up in a society of ‘honest criminals’.

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