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WEB NEWS, FEATURES & REVIEWSnews:
Scottish Festival Celebrates Crime Writing The programme for Scotland's first crime-writing festival has been launched feature:
British Noir Celebrated Specifically Patrick Hamilton's 'Hangover Square' interview:
David Mark Talks About The Dark Winter And Being An Author! David Mark talks about the background to his debut novel, The Dark Winter news:
Crime On Tour: 29 May – 14 June 2012 This year, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate turns ten, and to mark the occasion it is taking to the road to bring an early taste of Festival fun to crime writing fans news:
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year 2012 marks the eighth year of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award review:
Another Time, Another Life By Leif G.W. Persson Trans Paul Norlen Successfully blends both a police procedural, and political intrigue together with a dose of very dark humour and satire LATEST NEWS2012 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award Longlist Revealed 2012 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Longlist Revealed 2012 marks the eighth year of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. The award, run in partnership with Asda and in association with the Daily Mirror, was created to celebrate the very best in crime writing and is open to British and Irish authors whose novels were published in paperback over the previous twelve months. 2012 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Longlist Revealed From secret agents and smash hit thrillers to magic in the Met - A mix of writers old and new will do battle in this year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, one of the most prestigious crime writing prizes in the country LATEST REVIEWSWay back in 1889 a grisly find appears in a steamer trunk abandoned at Euston Station. Inside the trunk is the mutilated corpse of a Scotland Yard Detective Inspector. When you are a beautiful female country singer you can expect some inappropriate attention from lunatic fans. Kayleigh Towne has it in spades. This fan wants everything from her. The full nine yards, and she's scared LATEST FEATURES
A Shot Of Faraday — And Other Things — From Graham Hurley Long a favourite of Crime Time, the talented Graham Hurley has sent the much-loved DI Faraday to join Rebus and Wallander in the place where detectives go when they're hors de combat. But if you're having Faraday withdrawal symptoms, here's a shot of something consolatory...
Last week the new London Film Museum in Covent Garden played host to an exclusive The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo exhibition of film, book and graphic novel memorabilia to celebrate the film's release on Blu-ray and DVD this week. EF's Jason was kindly invited along to see it and among those in attendance were Steven Berkoff (who plays the lawyer Dirch Frode), Barry Forshaw (the UK's leading expert on Scandinavian film and TV) and renowned tattooist Nikole Lowe (as seen on TV's London Ink).
Nils Nordberg On Nordic Noir, Circa 2005 We are very pleased to have Nils Nordberg, the leading Scandinavian crime fiction authority, contribute to Crime Time. His analysis of Nordic Noir was written in 2005 and describes the world as it looked then, before the current surge in interest LATEST INTERVIEWS
Jon Jefferson Talks To Crime Time From the backwoods of the American South to the corridors of papal power... Jon Jefferson, the writer behind the bestselling "Body Farm" novels by Jefferson Bass, the latest of which has just hit bookstores and e-readers in the U.K. and U.S
Dead Man's Land: Robert Ryan Unusually, Dead Man's Land didn't start off as my idea at all, unlike my other novels. I had a meeting with Maxine Hitchcock, editorial director of Simon & Schuster about joining the company, at which she said they were looking for a work of fiction featuring a 'detective in the trenches of WW1'. I said it was interesting idea – what better place to commit murder than in a place were thousands are being slaughtered each day?
A Willing Victim: Laura Wilson Talks To Crime Time I chose to set the fourth D.I. Stratton novel in 1956, because it was a momentous year in Western politics. In January, John Forster Dulles had made his famous 'brinkmanship' speech, in which he advocated playing a nuclear weapons-based game of 'chicken' with the Soviets. For the USA's European allies – sitting targets in any exchange of fire – this was not reassuring. Their mounting fear of nuclear holocaust intensified alarmingly when, in November, when the action of the book is set, Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary... |
