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LATEST NEWSKellerman, Summerscale, Atkinson For R & J They may have considerably fewer viewers, but the Richard and Judy Book Club list still carries weight. Three acclaimed crime novels are on the newly announced list The much-respected crime writer Donald E. Westlake, author of over 100 books and screenplays, has died at 75. LATEST REVIEWSMarilyn Staso (in the New York Times)is unimpressed by the new Patricia Cornwell Calling Out For You Karin Fossum Karin Fossum remains comfortably at the top of the Norwegian crime tree |
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LATEST FEATURES
Olden Time Detectives Just out – and a must for every mystery fan – is a comprehensive and lavishly illustrated A-Z guide from Russell James: Great British Fictional Detectives, featuring over four hundred Great British Detectives, and highlighting their characteristics, books, TV appearances and films. Among the many titbits of information set around the main A-Z is a piece on Olden Time Detectives, which Russell has allowed us to quote here
Mystery Author Stumps Experts It stumped John Sutherland and Barry Forshaw in The Times... who wrote the unpublished mystery novel? LATEST INTERVIEWS
Fame And Obsessive Love Bad Friends became Maggie's story, a disillusioned TV producer who ends up a guest on her own chat-show after a terrible freak accident, then acquires a stalker. It's about fame and obsessive love, and explores our immoral TV industry – an industry that I know inside-out and still sometimes work in
Tom Cain On The Survivor People always told me that the second book was the hardest. The first has every good idea that's ever been stored away over years and years of dreaming. Then someone publishes it, and says, 'OK, now we need a sequel.' And they need it within a year. But you don't have any more ideas... |
