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Bloody Barnes and DI Garibaldi

by Bernard O'Keeffe

When people hear the phrase ‘Bloody Barnes’, they may now think of the crime writing festival launched this February, which brought the likes of Mark Billingham, Sophie Hannah, Vaseem Khan, Martin Edwards and Frank Gardner to Barnes. But before the festival arrived, ‘Bloody Barnes’ was the sort of phrase you might hear coming from the … Read more

Categories BLOG Tags Barnes, Bloody Barnes, Colin Dexter, Crime Fiction, Garibaldi

Inspector Morse Revisited

by Bernard O'Keeffe

On re-reading Inspector Morse I don’t often re-read books. This may be because when I was an English teacher re-reading books pretty much came with the territory,  and   the pain of having to read yet again a book I would rather not have read in the first place is still fresh in my memory. So … Read more

Categories BLOG Tags Colin Dexter, Crime Fiction, Inspector Morse

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