Blogs in February 2025

Talking Location With N S Brooks – SCOTLAND

Talking Location With N S Brooks – SCOTLAND 3rd February 2025

#TalkingLocationWith… N S Brooks, author of Fraud – SCOTLAND. The story starts in the West Highlands of Scotland in my first novel – Betrayed – and uses Scotland as a platform for the plots through all three subsequent books in the...

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Noir set in OSLO’s interwar years

Noir set in OSLO’s interwar years 31st January 2025

The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl, noir set in Oslo’s interwar years. Translated by Don Bartlett. The novel opens in Kristiania in 1924. Kristiania became Oslo in 1925 and much of the story is set in and around the...

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Thriller set in ARGENTINA

Thriller set in ARGENTINA 30th January 2025

Death Flight by Sarah Sultoon, thriller set in ARGENTINA. The backdrop to this novel is Argentina’s Dirty War, which I first read about in Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case by Elsa Ducaroff (TRS: Slava Faybysh and David William Foster) and...

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Thriller set in Manhattan

Thriller set in Manhattan 29th January 2025

The Doorman by Chris Pavone, thriller set in Manhattan.   Central to this story is the Bohemia, a unit of 94 apartments on the Upper West Side: ‘..luxurious and famous, but also tasteful, and somehow even modest..”  Set on...

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Noir set in SOUTH SHIELDS, ROMANIA, LONDON

Noir set in SOUTH SHIELDS, ROMANIA, LONDON 28th January 2025

Resilience by Bogdan Hrib – noir set in South Shields, Romania, London Translated by Marina Sofia Resilience by Bogdan Hrib is a great read which is described as Romanian noir, but which in truth defies the usual categorisations. Yes,...

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