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THE REVIEW SHOW AUGUST '22
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:23:21
Publish Date: 2022-09-01 16:00:00
Description:

Paul Burke takes a look at the latest crime fiction for August. From a top notch comedy thriller-come-meta-fiction to a slice of southern rural noir, from a dysfunctional family drama to a tense heist, and from the US and Mexico to the UK with brief spells in Crete and Dublin.

Books reviewed:
Anthony  Horowitz.   A Twist of the Knife                                                     top cosy /comedy
Gabino Iglesias   The Devil Takes You Home                                               top noir
Jean Hanff Korelitz  The Latecomer                                                                 top drama
John Trinian  The Big Grab & The Savage Breast
Wiley Cash  This Dark Road to Mercy
RG Adams  The Last House
Alan Johnson  One of Our Ministers is Missing                                        top beach read 
Ace Atkins (Robert B Parker Spenser series)  Bye Bye Baby            laudable swansong 
Andrea Mara  Hide an Seek
Deborah Masson  From the Ashes
John Vercher  After the Lights Go Out*                                                        top literary noir

Produced by Junkyard Dog
Music courtesy of Southgate and Leigh
Crime Time

Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

Coming in September: Robert Harris, Peter Papathanasiou, Will Dean, Rijula Das, Tim Leach...
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