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LATEST NEWSThe Independent Alliance of publishers has organized a weekend of events at Foyles in Charing Cross Road on 11th and 12th September. The crime panel on 11th features a rare appearance by P D James. One ticket for the whole day is £15. The panel is chaired by Peter Guttridge. The People's Detective On Itv3 Examining every aspect of the great TV sleuths, ITV3's 'The People's Detective' series will run every Tues, from Sept 31st - Oct 5, repeated Thursdays. Expert commentary is provided by (among other) Barry Forshaw, author of The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction LATEST REVIEWSAfter his drug war tour-de-force The Hour of the Dog, Winslow down-shifted and published two novels about the surfer private detective Boone Daniels. Those books are funny, sharp looks at the California Dream a marked contrast from their predecessor, which was comprehensive, violent, dark, and almost manic in its pace, which helped it in covering such vast scopes of greed, politics, and government corruption, in the US and in Mexico. Nude photos of the Hollywood actress Anna Mayhew are spread across the floor. They have cost the psychopathic Vincent Perec $2,000, and he is luxuriating in the erotic pleasure of stepping on them barefoot. But his next action is not what the reader anticipates: Vincent reaches for his father's straight razor, draws the blade across his forearm (already a mass of tiny, puckered scars from earlier cuts), and sprinkles drops of blood across the pornographic images. Displacement, but we get the idea... Barry Forshaw in The Independent |
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LATEST FEATURES
The More Interesting Sins: Anne Zouroudi There are those who might say I'm something of an intruder on Crime Time's soil, where - amongst the hard-boiled and the procedural, the psychos and the slashers - my claim to any tenure may seem dubious. My books, on the surface, are of softer, subtler stuff, reflecting the slower, timeless pace of the Greek islands where they're set. But they're big on mystery – who is the fat man, this Hermes Diaktoros, anyway? - and my intention, in creating the Greek Detective series, was certainly bold. I've gone for fusion, crossed over, mixed it up, headed for the outer limits of Crime, and dared to place a foot across the borders of a second genre... Anne Zouroudi talks to Crime Time
The Dog It Was That Died: John Dean On His Novel To Die Alone It was a hillside strewn with fallen trees that inspired my latest novel To Die Alone, published on September 30 by Hale. The novel, the second to feature Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris, had its beginnings during a family holiday on the Isle of Man. Although my characters live and work in the North Pennine hills, something about the Isle of Man scenery struck home... LATEST INTERVIEWS
The Corruption Of The Body: John Burdett 'Every man has seriously contemplated the inevitability of his own death, the corruption of the body, the worms, the disintegration...' John Burdett, author of The Godfather of Kathmandu, talks crime fction and bigger issues with Sean O'Leary
From Jeffrey Deaver To A Dalek: Leigh Russell On Her Fans...and Other Things Leigh Russell's fans range from Jeffrey Deaver to a Dalek. And her first novel, 'Cut Short', has just been nominated for the prestigious CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger, an award whose previous winners include Patricia Cornwell, Minette Walters, Louise Welsh and Denise Mina. Cut Short (July 2009) is the first of two psychological thrillers starring DI Geraldine Steel and was described by Jeffery Deaver as, 'a stylish, top-of-the-line crime tale, a seamless blending of psychological sophistication and gritty police procedure.' Road Closed (June 2010) received glowing reviews, from the renowned Times critic Marcel Berlins amongst others, and Dead End will be published in June 2011... |
