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Crime fiction with Mat Coward: July 26, 2023
Take your pick from bent Tories, tragic coming-of-age, strings-attached charity, and a classic bonkers thriller
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
THE most blatantly corrupt government in British history has been something of a godsend to thriller writers over the last few years.
The bent Tory at the centre of THE FALLEN by John Sutherland (Orion, £18.99) is the new policing minister, who’s widely tripped as the next party leader. His great crusade is the privatisation of the police — a “reform” worth tens of millions to people close to him.
Police negotiator, Superintendent Alex Lewis gets involved when he talks a distressed young woman down from a bridge in London.
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