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The best crime fiction of 2020: Liz Moore, Jane Casey, Scott Turow and more Declan Burke and Declan Hughes, our crime-writing specialists, share their picks of the year Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 06:00 Declan Burke and Declan Hughes Liz Moore, author of Long Bright River. A strong year for Irish crime fiction opened with Nicola White’s A Famished Heart (Viper), in which religious martyrdom provides the motive for a suspicious death. Malachi O’Doherty’s debut Terry Brankin H...

  Not the least of our losses in this plague year was one of our greatest poets, Derek Mahon. Washing Up (Gallery Press) is a glorious late harvest - vigorous, funny, angry, blithe - beautifully produced, like all Gallery editions, and including, appropriately, a lovely tribute to another luminary of the dead poets' society, Ciaran Carson. Mahon's last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a judicious selection from the magnificent six-volume Complete Letters of 2009. Had he not been a pain...