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- ↑ "Patrick Dewitt just cannot be stopped". National Post , April 27, 2012.
- ↑ "Crime novelists up for awards". Telegraph-Journal , April 24, 2012.
- ↑ "Arsenal Pulp acquires new fiction by Claudia Casper and Fraser Nixon". Quill & Quire , July 22, 2015.
- ↑ "The Man Who Killed heads for Main Street". The Georgia Straight , May 3, 2011.
