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LATEST NEWSCwa Dagger Awards At Tiger Tiger This year's CWA Daggers Awards are being announced in two stages. The first of these will take place on Wednesday 15th July 2009 at the Tiger Tiger nightspot in the Haymarket, London, when the winners of the CWA International Dagger, the CWA Short Story Dagger, the CWA Dagger in the Library and the CWA Debut Dagger will be announced, along with the shortlists for the Gold, John Creasey (New Blood) and Ian Fleming Steel Daggers R J Ellory's A Quiet Belief In Angels - having sold over 300,000 copies in the UK alone, is now to be released in the US in September. This will be Ellory's first US release, and has already generated not only a word-of-mouth buzz, but has also garnered critical plaudits from the likes of James Patterson, David Stone, Clive Cussler, Alan Furst,Jonathan Kellerman and many more LATEST REVIEWSIn The Independent, Barry Forshaw looks at evidence of a high-risk trend in British crime writing: perhaps aware that readers are wearying of burnt-out, alcoholic or damaged detectives, writers such as Laura Wilson have made their heroes relatively untroubled: family men, non-addictive personalities, not at loggerheads with superiors. This more quotidian copper also sports fewer tics (possibly remembering Agatha Christie, who regretted saddling Poirot with eccentric habits).
Gary Lovisi has long been one of the key authorities on the gloriously lurid art of pulp paperbacks, with their parade of alluring half-dressed temptresses/murderesses/victims, and this handsomely illustrated volume is perhaps his most entertaining contribution to the burgeoning field of reprints of such material |
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LATEST FEATURES
Crime Pays For E-books: Dan Waddell On A New Trend At last year's Crimefest in Bristol, a few red wines to the worse, I found myself in discussion with a fellow Penguin crime author on the subject of ebooks. He believed they could be the future, while I played Luddite, extolled the staying power of print and rubbished the idea that some shiny trinket could ever replace the sturdy beauty of a good book
The Glass Key 2009: The Nordic Crime Wave Rolls On The winner of the 2009 Glass Key is Swedish novelist Johan Theorin with his second novel Nattfåk (Night Blizzard). UK and US fans of his debut novel Skumtimmen (English title: Echoes from the Dead), clearly including the panel of judges for the CWA's 2009 International Dagger award which short-listed the novel this last weekend, will be delighted to know that his new book, under the title The Darkest Room, is already scheduled from UK Black Swan in July, and from Delacorte in the USA in September. LATEST INTERVIEWS
Looking Behind The Mask: N J Cooper Perception is an extraordinary thing. All too often we see what we think we're going to see, then hear and taste and feel what our eyes have told us we're going to experience... the enigmatic NJ Cooper(author Of No Escape) talks to Crime Time
The Incendiary's Trail James Mccreet Published in July, The Incendiary's Trail is the first in a gruesome new Victorian crime series by James McCreet; Crime Time talks to the author |
