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1 month ago | shotsmag.co.uk | Mike Ripley |John Bingham

Written by Mike Ripley RIPSTER REVIVALS #14 Yet more ‘occasional’ ramblings from the world of (mostly)crime fiction and thrillers. Books read, re-read and still to be read; old favourites rediscovered, new gems uncovered. Scene of the Crime(Fest) CrimeFest will indeed be leaving the festival scene next month as its sixteenth incarnation will see the end of has been rightly labelled ‘the friendliest of all gatherings celebrating murder and mayhem’.

2 months ago | shotsmag.co.uk | Mike Stotter

Written by Mike Stotter Please give details on the challenges faced by professional policeman/Head of the Kripo, Criminal Inspector Schenke - in fighting organised crime in a state run by organised criminals. SIMON: When I was writing I thought about the fact that Schenke is confronted by a dilemma often discussed down to the present day: if I was a German during the Nazi era, would I have had the courage to defy the regime?

Dec 7, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Jess Armstrong

Although hyped as a cosy the secret at the core of this novel is obscene, and presented as a kind of ghost to haunt a party held in a Scottish hotel in the nineteen twenties. This was a period when society was in a state of flux after the horrors of the First World War. Many people were grieving, desperate to be in contact with their loved ones again. And there were others, exploiting that grief.

Nov 20, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Tony Cox

Written by Tony R. Cox London’s more recent history, the last 100 years, especially, seems to be a constant theme. Is this a professional interest? It is, also a personal interest. My family have been Londoners for over a hundred and fifty year, mostly based around the Camden Town/Kentish Town/Somers Town areas – long before they were gentrified in the 1980s. The Camden Town that I grew up in the late 1940s/1950s, had three nationalities of equal size: English, Irish, Greek Cypriot.

Nov 14, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Alec Marsh

As the Great War rages the body of a murdered prostitute is found in the garrison town of Bethune. Prior to her death she had worked at an establishment servicing the needs of senior members of the British Army. Keen to find the killer without causing further tensions in an already fragile alliance with the French the authorities bring in ex-colonial administrator and former soldier Frank Champion to investigate the case.