Forshaw First Out Of The Gate With Stieg Larsson Bio

A host of books on the late Stieg Larsson are being written — or have been written — but Barry Forshaw's The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson — will be first out of the gate in the UK, published in April by John Blake

New Website To Celebrate Crime Writing Week

The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has created a new website to promote National Crime Fiction Week. A nationwide celebration of crime writing, National Crime Fiction Week will run from Monday June 14, for one week.

Members of the CWA will take part in readings, discussions, readers' group events and workshops all over the country, including in many libraries.

The website, on www.crimefictionweek.co.uk, will provide information, events listings, contacts and posters for download

The Snowman Jo Nesbø

What sort of issues do you expect your crime fiction to cover? If you feel that personal responsibility, cracks in the welfare state and the problems of parenthood are fair game for the crime novel, then Jo Nesbø is your man. All of these (and many more) are crammed into his weighty latest book, The Snowman... Barry Forshaw in The Independent

Marple Series Four

One can have nothing but praise for Julia McKenzie's intelligent, subtly acted incarnation of Agatha Christie's immortal spinster heroine, and the high gloss of this series of productions is immensely pleasing. What is puzzling is the variable direction given to the prestigious supporting casts who are often encouraged to act in a massively larger-than-life, end-of-the-pier fashion (in marked contrast to Julia McKenzie's nicely understated performance...