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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 REVIEWSThe Attenbury Diamonds Jill Paton Walsh Apart from her own considerable skills as a novelist, Jill Paton Walsh scored a palpable hit with her exemplary completion of Dorothy Sayers' unfinished Peter Wimsey novel Thrones, Dominations (a piece of legerdemain she repeated in A Presumption of Death), and here's some further Wimseyana from Walsh, this time an original outing for the aristocratic sleuth. The Attenbury Diamonds is delivered with quite as much panache as its predecessors; Sayers aficionados will relish this. Film Noir: The Encyclopedia Alain Silver Et Al I admit it, I'm guilty of having in the past ruthlessly exploited earlier editions of this book. Want a plot for a film you've never seen or dimly remember? Look it up in Film Noir: The Encyclopedia. Want a critique of a film that you can't quite articulate or recall? To jog your memory and critical faculties just check out what one of the critics in the Encyclopedia has to say on the subject... |
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LATEST FEATURES
American Devil: Oliver Stark AMERICAN DEVIL by Oliver Stark (Headline) marks the debut of a striking outstanding new talent. 'An impressive debut... Stark is an exceptional new British talent', said the Daily Mail. Stark made his first attempt at crime fiction at the age of sixteen. Needless to say, this never reached publication... unlike his gripping debut novel. He talks to Crime Time...
Horrible Shocks: Peter Guttridge On City Of Dreadful Night There is a folder of photographs in the English National Archives, within a bigger folder of documents. If you're not careful you don't realise they are photographs - but you need to be careful. For when you open them you get a horrible shock. Depending on the order the last person has left them in you're going to see a pair of legs hacked off at the top of the thigh standing to unwieldy attention against a white tile wall... LATEST INTERVIEWS
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...
Under The Influence: L C Tyler You know how it is. The bright lights are shining in your eyes. The interrogation has been relentless for almost an hour. You've told them all you know – and more. But still it goes on. You take a sip of tepid water and hope that they'll give you a break – but, no ... "I think," says the chairman, "that we've got time for just one more question from the audience. Yes, you sir, at the back – the gentleman with the crazed expression and straw in his hair." "Could the panel tell us," says the voice from out of the gloom, "which other writers have influenced them and how?" |
