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Tag: john sandford

  • Social inequality and sense of place in crime fiction

    Ian Rankin fans will enjoy reading his conversation with the Indian communist leader Prakash Karat, who has read all his 17 Inspector Rebus novels and did his Master’s in politics at the University of Edinburgh, in Rankin’s hometown. Rankin talks about his working-class parents, his being the first from his family to go to university […]

  • John Sandford: Good fun like Elmore Leonard

    I was surprised when a New York Times book reviewer writing about a history of thrillers said he had never read John Sandford. He is one of the best American crime writers in business. Sandford writes about cops and robbers as entertainingly as Elmore Leonard, author of Get Shorty and the most critically acclaimed of […]