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LATEST NEWSThe Tenderness of Wolves, by Stef Penney, was chosen by the Theakston panel of judges against competition from 12 other best-selling top authors including Alexander McCall Smith, Peter Robinson and Mark Billingham. The June US bestsellers have been listed by reporting members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association LATEST REVIEWSDark as night and nearly as long, Christopher Nolan's new Batman movie feels like a beginning and something of an end. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind — including Batman Begins
Despite the grim nature of the plot, Megan and Dominic are likeable characters and the book skips along briskly to a memorable ending that provides enough of a jolt to shock even the most jaded reader |
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LATEST FEATURES
No Keys In Hawaii The 19th annual Left Coast Crime mystery convention will be held for the first time in Hawaii. So, appropriately, its "Ghost-of-Honor" is Earl Derr Biggers, who created the Chinese police detective from Honolulu in six novels, beginning in 1925 with The House Without a Key. As part of the convention's tribute to Biggers, LCC'09 will present a one-act stage play of "The House Without a Key," and each registration includes a free ticket to the show.
Swedish crime supremo Henning Mankell has bagged an honorary degree from Scotland's St Andrews University. LATEST INTERVIEWS
Lehane Crosses Genres Flawed detectives, missing children, hearts of darkness: These have been Lehane's stock in trade, propelled by page-turning plots and thorny moral quandaries set mostly on the streets of the working-class Boston area where the author grew up.
How screwed up we all are... Example: 1 in 3 women have been a victim of some form of sexual abuse. 1 in 25 of all the population (a debated estimate, but close enough) are sociopaths... |
