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Waiting For Dark | LitroLab Podcas
Dan Coxon catches up with Barcelona Shadows author Marc Pastor at the Litro Book Club event in East London to discuss his novel, his fascination with The Vampire of Barcelona, ...
“Mystery” Photo Competition Winners
Impossible architecture, spooky stories and fabulous fairytales all feature in the winning photos in our “Mystery” themed photo competition.
An Epic Project: Interview with Richard House on The Kills
Litro contributor Richard House tells us about his four-novel series The Kills, a political thriller and epic literary project that’s set to be one of the literary events of the ...
“Where Sleaze Meets Artistry”: 12 Great Crime Novel Covers
“Women with desire and devilry in their eyes. Detectives with pistols in their paws and not enough luck to fill a matchbox. Damp, deserted roadways. Hot-sheet motels. Women in peril, ...
The Good Book
Perhaps you, reading this, can now begin to understand the panic that seized me. This is my life! The Zanetti in this strange book is the same Zanetti standing in ...
The Written World: The North Pole
“To come here you must risk not only the bear’s meathook claws but the jaws of the orca, the nose of the wolf, perhaps even the magic of some stranger ...
Edge
Of the two possible reasons to be brought out of stasis, I figured this must be the second. Since I could just make out the vague outline of Pluto, the ...
The Mystery of the Missing Scots
Samuel Dodson argues that real Scottish characters are mysteriously missing from English literature.
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The Land & the Sea
In the mornings the fishing boats collect. In the grey-blue mist of the nearly-light they arrive at the harbour mouth, their decks heaped (or not) with last night’s catch. Here ...
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Somebody Else’s Second Chance
I died before I was born. My slate wasn’t clean but marred with half-erased sentences and distorted images. I’ve tried to smooth the etchings, but it’s difficult to repair a ...
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Litro #123: Mystery
Featuring fiction and nonfiction from Mazin Saleem, Thomas Binns, Anniken Blomberg, Oli Belas, Elishia Heiden and Helen Jukes.
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Listings: February – March 2013
Book events, theatre, film, comedy and exhibitions for the month.
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The Enduring Appeal of the Mystery Story
The critic Tzvetan Todorov once suggested that the trick to writing a successful detective story was being sure not to innovate. The great genre work is that which best and ...
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Across the Border
He carried with him a not-quite-acknowledged feeling that something or someone was lurking at the edge of his shadow. Something that would keep still as long as he was in ...
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Litro #123: Mystery – Letter from the Editor
Mysteries are quantum events, occurring but only existing for a time, until they are resolved and disappear. Those gaps appear literally, too, as dark spaces – shadowy alleyways between buildings, ...
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Working Techniques of the Amateur Detective
Back of a mobile phone found in the gutter on Crossleigh Street. Mugging gone wrong? Half mile radius searched for any further items, handbag, purse, searched bushes in Crompton park, ...
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Meaningless Number
"There’s just something so bad about It. We talk sometimes about the beauty of a theory, the elegance of an explanation. What we have under that tent in Tower Hamlets ...
Novel: Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
Anyone who thinks that the crime novel is a boring, repetitive genre would do well to read Belinda Bauer’s Rubbernecker. Set in the coma ward of a Cardiff hospital, Rubbernecker ...