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WEB NEWS, FEATURES & REVIEWSnews:
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 review:
Dare Me By Megan Abbott Dark secrets among the cheerleaders feature:
Stockholm Text & Swedish Queens Of Crime Swedish Crime Writers Go Global feature:
The A To Z Of Crime Fiction 26 key elements essential in turning a crime novel into a gripping, unputdownable read feature:
Harry Clarke's Haunting 1919 Illustrations For Edgar Allan Poe's Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Artful Edwardian-era erotica at the intersection of the whimsical and the macabre LATEST NEWSOstara Crime: New Titles, New Imprint Ostara Publishing, the small, independent publisher specialising in vintage British crime and thriller fiction, has launched a new imprint, Ostara Crime, which aims to collect and republish quality crime writing for new readers, using the latest print-on-demand and e-book technology. Crimefest Announces Awards Shortlists 2012 Crime's biggest hitters Lee Child, George Pelecanos and Anthony Horowitz are pitted against newcomers including S.J. Watson and Thomas Enger in CrimeFest's fifth annual awards ceremony LATEST REVIEWSDeath And The Olive Grove by Marco Vichi This is the third in the series of Inspector Bordelli crime novels by Marco Vichi.The first, Death in August was introduced to UK readers last year. Vichi's protagonist is a character with depth and and a fascinating back story fighting his own demons and possessing an acute awareness of the struggles of the poor and disempowered in a corrupt Italy... Imagine a metafiction serial-killer thriller written by Paul Auster on speed. Imagine an obsessive Flemish professor of film history finding his life increasingly filled with scenes from classic film noir – film noir because scenes and murders from Psycho, Rear Window, Rope, Strangers on a Train, No Escape, Butterfield 8, The Big Heat et cetera are being re-enacted in uncanny detail all about him... LATEST FEATURES
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
The Scandicrime Trans-Europe Express Just back from my exhilarating but exhausting round-Europe train trip for Death in a Cold Climate: four countries and multiple cities in seven days (Copenhagen, Malmö, Ystad, Lund Cologne), ending at the 'Danish Harrogate', Krimimessen in Horsens 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... |
