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Bookish (2 of 3):
CRIME, REAL & IMAGINED (4#) -

# Misha Glenny is a respected writer whose (non-fiction) McMafia has just made its debut. I don't know how it is being released or distributed in an international vein, but it is attracting numerous reviews. Among them:

:: reviewed by Andrew Anthony::
:: and by Robert Cole ::

# Crime fiction reviews this weekend in The Observer include Frances Fyfield's Blood From a Stone which starts with a man cutting off a woman's finger at the kitchen table; last down the page, Nicola Upson has written a sleuther called An Expert in Murder, which stars the real author (now deceased) Josephine Tey, portrayed in 1930s-era theatrical London. And brief reviews of some other books by Peter Guttridge.

# And lastly here: A pair of whodunnits
located in atmospheric village settings
:: reviewed by Susanna Yager.

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