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Cold Hands

**By** John Niven

**Windmill Books,** €11.30

In a previous life, John Niven worked as an A&R man for a major record label at the height of the Britpop years. He turned that experience into an extremely funny debut novel, Kill Your Friends. The follow-up, Straight White Male, upped the ante to even grosser levels of schlock. Now Niven has gone (relatively) serious on us with his first thriller – and Cold ...