Why do we love crime fiction so much? Part 1

On my top ten crime novels, breakfast on Saturdays and remembering Melanie Safka

Feb 02, 2024

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I hate blood and gore but I love crime novels. My absolute favourites are Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie books. They’re stunningly written, pacy stories, with a flawed, cynical ex-cop as the hero. Atkinson has written five Jackson Brodie books so far (they’ve also been dramatised by the BBC) and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there will be another …

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