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Rediscovering Melbourne 
AussieCon 4 - Day One 
How to write a resume that will get you past the grumpy developer in the corner 
One down, one to go 
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Allison & Busby
Brand new mystery series (first hardback only £12.99) 
Wednesday Cover Story: The four covers to Under the Dome 
In need of a pedicure? Send in the Garra Rufa fish. 
What-ho Blogosphere! 
A final farewell… 
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Angela Savage
One Just World de-brief 
One Just World 
The Waiting City 
Melbourne Writers Festival 2010 program 
Crime & Justice Festival 2010 wrap-up 2 
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AustCrime Online
COPS - TRUE STORIES FROM AUSTRALIAN POLICE - Vikki Petraitis 
Added to MtTBR - Present Danger, Stella Rimington 
BLIND FURY - Lynda La Plante 
Added to MtTBR - Bunker, Andrea Maria Schenkel 
Currently Reading - Crooks Like Us, Peter Doyle 
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Barbara Fister
Seth Godin – Book Publishing is So 1907 
the power of visualization 
I’m blogging on the inside … 
Review: The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan 
have books, will travel 
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BeWrite Books
TEEN LITERACY NOSE-DIVING? DON'T BET YOUR SOCKS 
THE POCKET MONEY READER 
TARGET MARKET -- SERIAL SLAUGHTER ON LINE 
AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK -- NEW BB POETRY RELEASE 
ON PERFORMING POETRY -- SLAM BAM, THANK YOU MA'AM 
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Blood Stained Book Reviews
Brother Odd by Dean Koontz 
Death of a Dying Man by J.M. Redmann 
Bone by Bone By Carol O'Connell 
The Halo Effect by M.J. Rose 
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child 
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Boomerang Book News
KOALA Awards 2009 winners announced, 'H I Larry' revealed 
Bestsellers this week 
What's Hot in the Media 26th October 2009 
NSW Premier's History Award winners announced 
Pan Mac: print run for Reilly our highest ever for Aus author 
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Boomerang Book Reviews
To Touch the Clouds by Peter Watt 
A History of Cricket by Catherine Chambers 
Aussie Legends by Tom Baddeley 
Lost! A True Tale from the Bush by Stephanie Owen Reeder 
Saving Pandas by Carla Litchfield 
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
Lovely Review from Crimespree 
My Day Off 
A New Deal and an Upbeat Publishing Tale 
RWA Was a Blast (No Thanks to the Mouse) 
Crimespree Nomination 
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Carter Brown Mysteries
The Blondes 
Nordic Carter Browns. 
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Charlotte Grimshaw
The other side of the world 
Strange days 
Getting Out of the House 
Travelling 
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Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
The Criminalist: The Legacy of Charlie Chan 
On Martin Cruz Smith and His New Arkady Renko Novel 
New and Forthcoming: FOLLOWING THE DETECTIVES, and A New Short Story 
On Don Winslow's Hyper-Charged New Novel SAVAGES 
Richard Price Can Now Truly Call Himself a Crime Novelist 
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Crime Always Pays
DANNY BOY 2.0: The Rewrite 
Nobody Move, This Is A Review: UNION ATLANTIC by Adam Haslett 
Smarter Than The Average Bears 
Down These Green Streets … 
I Love The Smell Of Paranoia In The Morning 
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Crime Beat
Crime Beat: Events alert 
Crime Beat: Wessel Ebersohn comes clean 
Crime Beat: The grilling of Sarah Lotz 
Crime Beat: Stray doppies 
Crime Beat: The Buzz 
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Crime Down Under
Reading Notes: No Weather For A Burial by David Owen 
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Crime Scene NI
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 
An Interview - Wayne Simmons 
An Interview - Spence Wright 
Taylor on the TV 
Sex, Dubs and Rock 'n' Roll 
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Crime Scene Scotland
FOURTH DAY and KILLER INSTINCT by Zoe Sharp 
2010 summer roundup 
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Crimespace
Freshening Up My Website 
Lee Goldberg The Walk 
Another New Noir Fest 
Review - Blind Fury, Lynda La Plante 
Meet Me Saturday in MD 
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Crimewav.com
Jason Duke - Phoenix Nightlife - Part Four of 4 
Jason Duke - Phoenix Nightlife - Part Three of 4 
Jason Duke - Phoenix Nightlife - Part TWO of 4 
Congrats to Twist Phelan! 
Jason Duke - Phoenix Nightlife - Part 1 of 4 
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Detectives Beyond Borders
He wrote the book on e-books 
Hammett and history 
The considerable appeal of Peeler 
Bye Bye Baby: Fast, hard, cheap and good 
Kevin McCarthy's "Peeler," or, sometimes the where is the what 
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Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
Rivalries 
Gilda Revisited 
Avatar 
Moon: review 
Dashiell Hammett 
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Down in the Hole
New Digs 
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Eurocrime
Upcoming Talks at the Italian Cultural Institute 
Bruno, Chief of Police - Cover Opinions 
New Poll - Violence 
Book & TV News: Luther 
TV News: Sherlock S2 & DVD 
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Femmes Fatales
The End! (But not really.) 
Bringing a novel to life 
Surprise Inside 
Criminally Bad Book Signings 
Just Your Type 
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Freemantle Arts Press
It's a wrap: Indigenous Literacy Day 
EVENT: Spinner book launch 
Welcome to Children's Literature Month! 
Indigenous literacy celebrated 
EVENT: 1,2,3 YA 
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Guardian Book Blog
Authors, like Oscar winners, should keep their acknowledgements short | Stuart Evers 
The literary (anti)heroes of middle age 
Sitting, lying or standing: what's the pole position for reading? 
How will Tony Blair's Journey begin? 
Not the Booker prize 2010: nominate now! 
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Hey, There's A Dead Guy....
Edits for All! 
Reviewing the evidence... 
The Death Kitten Explains It All 
Cute Pictures of Dogs and Cats 
Getting to know me, part 2, by Dale Spindel 
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I Love a Good Mystery
Series or Stand Alones? 
Peter Robinson's Bad Boy Video Teaser 
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Independent Crime
Tyrus and Busted Flush Press Merge 
The Rap Sheet Gets Poetic About Stark 
Hard Case Goes Hardcover 
Hard Times for Hard Case 
Thuglit Folds 
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International Noir Fiction
Listening to The Locked Room 
Every Bitter Thing, by Leighton Gage 
A forgotten post for forgotten friday: A bit of German noir 
Frozen Moment, by Camilla Ceder: a new Swedish procedural 
The Neapolitan Streak, by Timothy Holme 
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It's a Crime
The Herring in the Library – L C Tyler 
The Newgate Jig – Ann Featherstone 
My Friday #FF on Twitter 
Bryant & May: Off the Rails – Christopher Fowler 
Ashes to Dust – Yrsa Sigurdardottir 
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J J Cooper
Free Sample Chapter of DEADLY TRUST 
New Thriller Information 
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John Baker's Blog
Back Home Again 
Elif Shafak on Fiction and Imagination 
Spare Ribs 
Patti Smith – Horses 
Zadie Smith on Reading and Writing 
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Katherine Howell
August update. 
May already? 
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Kirsty Brooks
heroism in animals 
Stories I can't change because I never had a hand in writing them 
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Local - Swedish News in English
Ryanair flies under Swedish card fee prohibition 
What's On in Sweden: September 3rd - 9th 
How to find the Key to Sweden 
Suspects deserve the 'maximum penalty' 
Shock greets revelations of bound disabled man 
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Matilda
Mr. Bad Example 
2010 World Fantasy Awards Nominees 
2010 CBCA Book of the Year Awards 
Australian Bookcovers #224 - Monkey Grip by Helen Garner 
2010 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Shortlists 
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Moments in Crime
The Other Linda 
Research can get downright harrowing... 
Speaking of sociopaths . . . 
They're out there . . . 
Sometimes a writer's inspiration comes from some very dark places 
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Murderati
We've Moved! 
We've Moved! 
It's Moving Day!!!!!! 
It's Moving Day!!!!!! 
(Right) Place, (Right) Time 
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Nordic Bookblog
Ashes to Dust, by Yrsa Sigurdardottir 
Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End, by Leif GW Persson 
Bestsellers in Sweden, August 2010 
Scandinavian movies: Five memorable dramas 
Bloodthirsty femmes: The Women of Scandinavian Crime Fiction 
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NZ - Beatties Bookblog
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NZ Herald - Books
Gordon Brown savaged in Blair's memoirs 
Gill South : The lesson from BP It doesn't pay to lose focus on sustainability 
Book Review: Katherine Mansfield: The story tellers 
Common touch (+recipe) 
Book Review: Sex and Stravinsky 
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Penguin UK Blog
Editor Simon Winder looks back on a curious attempt to make philosophy popular. 
Happy Birthday Penguin! 
The Joys of Cycling a Bike in London 
Our Kind of Writer 
They Do Things Differently Over There; or, A Pictorial Tour of New York’s Bookshops 
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Pulpetti
Toni Johnson-Woods on Carter Brown 
My other new webzine out 
Monday's Forgotten Film: The Big Town 
Rare Clint Eastwood western 
My books this Fall 
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Radio National's Book Show
Book Show 2010-09-02 
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Reactions to Reading
Review: The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney 
Books of the Month &#8211; August 2010 
Review: Murder at the Kennedy Center by Margaret Truman 
Fact is stranger than fiction 
Review: Death Comes As The End by Agatha Christie 
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Readings Bookstores
Union Atlantic: Adam Haslett 
The Story of my Book: Gretchen Shirm on Having Cried Wolf 
Wasted: Ross Honeywill 
DBC Pierre 
An Exclusive Love: Johanna Adorján 
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Reg Keeland - Translator
Seattleites! Mysteries of translation revealed at Elliott Bay on Oct. 12 
Camilla Läckberg ties the knot in Stockholm 
Library Journal covers Thrillerfest 
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Abbondanza! 
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Sally from Oz
Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman by Polly Evans 
Breakfast at Sadie’s by Lee Weatherly 
Evanly Bodies by Rhys Bowen 
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich 
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater 
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Scandinavian Crime Fiction
a model of order, or a dystopia? how about both? 
film and fiction in review 
Nordic, like the Netherlands 
catching up and a backlash of sorts 
un-Finnish-ed business 
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Scribe
Speaking Volumes: conversations with remarkable writers 
Rainbow Pie: a redneck memoir 
Bereft 
The Flight of the Intellectuals 
Climate Wars: the fight for survival as the world overheats: New edition 
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Shots Magazine
Newsy stuff 
Book Event at Foyles London 
Newsy Stuff 
Edinburgh Festival 2nd Report from Peter Guttridge 
Our Man in Edinburgh or Peter Guttridge on the town..... 
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Sons of Spade
The Superman Project (Chico Santana) by A.E. Roman 
Fourth Day (Charlie Fox) by Zoë Sharp 
The nominees are... 
Q & A with Gerry Boyle 
A Free e-book! 
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Stephen Booth
CRIME FICTION WEEK IN BIRMINGHAM 
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Stuart MacBride
Avast, me hearties 
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Sydney Morning Herald Book Blog
Getting to the bottom of it 
The Boat comes in 
Portrait of the writer 
Bret comes to Byron 
China changes its mind 
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The Big Thrill
A Between the Lines Interview with Ridley Pearson 
Bolt Action by Charlie Charters 
The September edition of The Big Thrill is here! 
News from South Africa 
Lost Empire by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood 
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The Dirt
Blink and it all changes 
Twelfth Night in Ballarat on ... the 13th 
I WANT A PONY!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Eating Out in Central Victoria Number whatever 
Weather Station, take 2 
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The Hieroglyphic Streets
The art of the Dutch golden age. 
Amsterdam stories. 
Existential Holland. 
The death of the village. 
Rembrandt van Rijn. 
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The Rap Sheet
Killed in the Ratings: “Serpico” 
Killed in the Ratings 
The Wednesday Helping 
A Torrent of Tidings 
The Story Behind the Story: “The Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas,” by Chris Ewan 
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Words Without Borders
From the P.O. Box: Flaubert, Pagani, de Lope, Castel-Bloom 
September 2010 
Mela Hartwig’s “Am I a Redundant Human Being?” 
Two Old Kippers 
Fable of a Severed Head 
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