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WEB NEWS, FEATURES & REVIEWSfeature:
Thrillers Including Simon Khoury And Simon Kernick Jeremy Jehu gets all het up about the latest batch of thrillers news:
A Night Of Crime In Belgravia On Wednesday February 8th, come and hear three of the UK's finest crime writers discussing their work at Belgravia Books in the heart of London. review:
Bereft By Chris Womersley Just once in a while, a thriller comes along that is so good it takes your breath away news:
John Hawkes Takes The Lead In Jackie Brown Prequel The Switch Now, before anybody gets too excited it needs to be stated right up front that, no, Quentin Tarantino has no hand in this feature:
Mark Billingham And Paul Johnston In Conversation So what nudged you towards the genre? news:
Century Buys Chatterton Crime Debut Century has acquired two novels in a new procedural crime series by author Ed Chatterton, billing it as "gritty, dark, visceral and utterly gripping". LATEST NEWSThe Nordic Noir book Club has announced the following exciting events, taking place later this month. Borgen Briefing Saturday 18 February: A meeting with one of BBC4's 'Borgen' directors, Annette K. Olesen, and Danish experts from UCL, to discuss the nations' new favourite Scandinavian drama. The event is organised by UCL Nordic film specialist Claire Thomson... Crime Fiction Rules At Libraries PLR figures have revealed that crime fiction entries (including many novels by American authors) constitute every entry of the top 10 most borrowed titles from UK libraries between July 2010 and June 2011. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (published by Transworld) is the single most borrowed book, boasting 78,342 loans. Thriller Titan James Patterson has bagged five of the top slots and remains the single most borrowed author in Britain's library service. LATEST REVIEWSJohn Foster and Noir Theatre (First Draft at the Charing Cross Theatre, 22 January 2012) "There is film noir, noir on TV, every kind of literary noir you care to name," John Foster once remarked. "But where is noir in the theatre?" It's a pertinent observation from a man with a long career in TV drama.... Edge Of Dark Water Joe Lansdale If you've read Joe Lansdale before you won't need to read this review; you'll read his latest anyway. If you haven't read him, read this, an astounding tale of a small group (it varies from three to five) escaping from serious trouble in down-home backwoods Texas by sailing a raft down river through lands stalked by danger and controlled by no one. Sounds a bit like Huckleberry Finn? This is a hundred times better... LATEST FEATURES
How Difficult Is It To Write A Crime Novel? How difficult is it to write a crime novel? Is a 'novel of crime' novel different from a novel of crime? Are they aimed at different readerships? Do publishers resist genre novels that don't fit their niche market? In a crowded market, at a time when every writer is turning to writing historical, fantasy and crime novels, first-time novelists looking for a publisher need patience and perseverance. There are eight million stories out there in the naked literary city - this is just one of them...
Mons Kallentoft In The Financial Times On Barry Forshaw's Death In A Cold Climate I met Barry Forshaw briefly at a dinner for crime fiction aficionados in London some time ago. He was the obvious authority in the room; I could see people straining to hear, weighing his words carefully. That evening, Forshaw came across as humble, intelligent and perceptive.
His new book Death in a Cold Climate is both intelligent and perceptive. Humble it is not. It is, to my knowledge, the most complete guide to Scandinavian crime fiction yet written in any language, an invaluable companion for anyone interested in the genre...
Graham Hurley: Faraday, Rip Graham Hurley Talks to Crime Time... More than decade ago, thanks to an invitation from Orion, I became a crime writer. This wasn't a corner of commercial fiction I'd ever regarded with much enthusiasm but the fridge was getting emptier and – to be frank – I couldn't afford to say no to a three-book contract. But where to start? One answer would have been the crime shelves of my local library but that would have been a short cut to pastiche fiction and so I fenced off a couple of precious months and set about getting alongside working detectives. Tough call... LATEST INTERVIEWS
William Landay On Defending Jacob DEFENDING JACOB takes up the question of the emerging science of "behavioral genetics", which suggests that physical factors — very specific genetic mutations or malfunctioning of the brain — may create a biological tendency toward violence. In the novel, the protagonist Andy Barber is haunted by the idea that he has passed a "murder gene" to his teenage son. Is it possible?
Up To Date With Jerry Raine Hi folks. I have two new books on Amazon Kindle: CAMDEN CALLING and MISSING IN ACTON. The first one is a sequel to 'Some Like it Cold' (also on Kindle) and the other one has a new character called Vincent Company
Cold Remains: Sally Spedding Where no-one will hear you scream... My first thought exactly, once I'd left the main road past the small Carmarthenshire village of Rhandirmyn and in the overwhelming silence, trekked up towards the bleak landscape of what had to be a disused lead mine. Encircled by dark forestry and the constant airborne flow of rooks, my second thought was how long would it take me to escape? |
