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Ash Thakur

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Crime, Thriller

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Ash Thakur was born in Edgware, north London and grew up in Hendon. He was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s school in Hertfordshire and Imperial College, London, where he read Mathematics.

Following a fifteen year career working for a variety of banks in the City, he decided to write a story about some of the shadier goings on at the edges of the financial world. The Scheme is his debut novel.

He now resides in Golders Green, former home of Evelyn Waugh and presently Kazuo Ishiguro. His pastimes are travel, cooking, traditional British ales and attending the theatre and classical concerts.

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Thrillers v. Mysteries

The thriller and the mystery are the two building blocks of crime writing and indeed all plot driven, "exciting" literature. Each one has its own conventions (don't we cheer when they're broken in a clever way?) and traditions, each promises a certain kind of ride for the reader's money. But they are inherently different. Let's take a look at what they are both good and somewhat less successful at Read more of this blog post »

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