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WEB NEWS, FEATURES & REVIEWSreview:
A June Of Ordinary Murders By Conor Brady It's not often you get a debut crime novel from a former editor of the Irish Times who is also a former Garda Ombudsman review:
I Will Have Vengeance By Maurizio De Giovanni Trans Anne Milano Appel The first in a series featuring an enigmatic Naples detective Commissario Ricciardi and set during the Fascist 1930s review:
The Golden Scales By Parker Bilal Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo feature:
Jens Lapidus On Turning Swedish Crime Writing On Its Head Jens Lapidus's novel Easy Money has become the fastest selling Swedish crime novel in a decade news:
Hugh Bonneville To Star In Adaptation Of Peter James' Dead Simple Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville has signed to play the lead in Dead Simple, a feature version of the bestselling crime novel feature:
Elmore Leonard On Writing Elmore Leonard is one of the undisputed masters of hip, cool, crime fiction LATEST NEWSCity University London Announces UK's First Degree Tailored To Aspiring Crime Novelists City University London has announced that it will be launching the country's first ever Master's Degree dedicated to crime thriller writing, in response to student demand and the increasing popularity of the genre. Hilary Bonner Pens New Thriller For Pan Mac Pan Macmillan Publishing Director, Wayne Brookes, has acquired two brand new psychological thrillers by Hilary Bonner from Tony Peake. Brookes secured world rights for The Cruellest Game and one as yet untitled novel. The Cruellest Game is scheduled for publication in 2013. LATEST REVIEWSHurley is still a master of Police Procedural and Happy Days is a superb example The Mystery Of The Yellow Room My favourite of all locked-room novels has at last been reissued. The Mystery of the Yellow Room was written in 1908 by Gaston Leroux, better known for The Phantom of the Opera, and has never been bettered. The first in a series of novels to feature the intrepid if naive young reporter and sleuth, Rouletabille, it pits him against the dark soul of the detective Frederick Larsan and the murky secrets of the Stangerson family... 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
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?
David Dickinson: Reviving Mycroft Holmes When Richard Foreman of Endeavour Press asked me to write a short story about the Adventures of Mycroft Holmes, I was reluctant at first. True, I had been writing detective stories set in roughly the same period about my own fictional investigator called Lord Francis Powerscourt. True, I had always been a great fan of Sherlock Holmes. But something I remembered about Mycroft in the stories made me feel he would be a difficult character to write about. Mycroft never goes anywhere, unless in very exceptional circumstances... |
