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It’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and as the clock ticks over into a new year, Renee Ballard hopes that 2021 won’t bring any more unpleasant surprises. In the short and long term, she’s likely to be disappointed. She has a raft of cases on her docket, some more official...
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After the events of A Book of Bones, the repercussions of the actions taken by Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel in Europe have finally started to ripple out. The Vuksans – two brothers whose legendary brutality across Eastern Europe and the carnage of the war in the old Yugoslavia...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Illustrated Handbook Though The Next Generation gets the bulk of the press for Trek’s resurgence in the 1980/1990s, it’s not difficult to find many fans for whom Deep Space Nine was a more layered experience. The middle-child between TNG and Voyager it...
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Attorney Mickey Haller has just won another case and is in the mood to celebrate. But on the way home from a subsequent party, he is pulled over by the police in what he presumes is an annoying but arbitrary event – after all, he wasn’t speeding and he’s...
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Jonathan Melville’s A Kind of Magic shows that important combination of being an invested fan and a good researcher. In some cases the attention to detail will appeal more to a die-hard Highlander fan than a casual cine-buff, but he draws in accounts from stars and day-players and treats...
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It’s 1997 and in Burdon County, Arkansas, a young black woman lies dead in the undergrowth, just the wrong or right side of a property-line, depending on your view. While there are those who want to catch her killer, there are others who recognise the similarities to a previous...
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Leeds-born Alex North’s debut novel (at least under that name) was a certifiable success in 2019, receiving numerous awards, recognition and with the rights bought up by no less than the Russo Brothers (whom you may remember from directing a little film called Avengers: Endgame). About as far away...
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It’s been several years since Jack McEvoy wrote best-selling books based on two of his investigations of killers working below the police radar. Those took him from regional reporter to the heights of the LA Times, but he now works for the crusading website FairWarning looking out for consumer...
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Over the years, Paul Simpson has written and performed editing duties on a vast number of books and magazines, demonstrating a depth of knowledge across an equally impressive range of pop-culture essentials. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that his latest tome – actually an updated edition of 2015’s ...
It’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and as the clock ticks over into a new year, Renee Ballard hopes that 2021 won’t bring any more unpleasant surprises. In the short and long term, she’s likely to be disappointed. She has a raft of cases on her docket, some more official...
After the events of A Book of Bones, the repercussions of the actions taken by Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel in Europe have finally started to ripple out. The Vuksans – two brothers whose legendary brutality across Eastern Europe and the carnage of the war in the old Yugoslavia...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Illustrated Handbook Though The Next Generation gets the bulk of the press for Trek’s resurgence in the 1980/1990s, it’s not difficult to find many fans for whom Deep Space Nine was a more layered experience. The middle-child between TNG and Voyager it...
Attorney Mickey Haller has just won another case and is in the mood to celebrate. But on the way home from a subsequent party, he is pulled over by the police in what he presumes is an annoying but arbitrary event – after all, he wasn’t speeding and he’s...
Jonathan Melville’s A Kind of Magic shows that important combination of being an invested fan and a good researcher. In some cases the attention to detail will appeal more to a die-hard Highlander fan than a casual cine-buff, but he draws in accounts from stars and day-players and treats...
It’s 1997 and in Burdon County, Arkansas, a young black woman lies dead in the undergrowth, just the wrong or right side of a property-line, depending on your view. While there are those who want to catch her killer, there are others who recognise the similarities to a previous...
Leeds-born Alex North’s debut novel (at least under that name) was a certifiable success in 2019, receiving numerous awards, recognition and with the rights bought up by no less than the Russo Brothers (whom you may remember from directing a little film called Avengers: Endgame). About as far away...
It’s been several years since Jack McEvoy wrote best-selling books based on two of his investigations of killers working below the police radar. Those took him from regional reporter to the heights of the LA Times, but he now works for the crusading website FairWarning looking out for consumer...
Over the years, Paul Simpson has written and performed editing duties on a vast number of books and magazines, demonstrating a depth of knowledge across an equally impressive range of pop-culture essentials. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that his latest tome – actually an updated edition of 2015’s ...
Industry site Deadline has just officially confirmed the rumours circling over the last week or so that Magnum PI will be returning to screens with new episodes. Despite solid...
In the midst of celebrating various cadets completion of their service, the Enterprise faces two new missions – to deliver much needed supplies to a far-off outpost and also...
It’s years after the riots that tore apart parts of the cities, the realisation that a super-computer was attempting to control the everyday lives of its citizens… and in...
Evil is a show that’s always been good at surprises. What could very easily have been just a very safe ecumenical X-Files has consistently been anything but. The show,...