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WEB NEWS, FEATURES & REVIEWSfeature:
Ten Great Crime Novels That You Should Have Read There's a kind of novel that can only be a crime novel. They are short. They are sharp – ostentatiously so - they are cool and the people are cold. news:
Modern Day Cold War Thriller To Harvill Secker Alison Hennessey, Senior Crime Editor at Harvill Secker, has acquired World English Language rights to thriller Plan D by Simon Urban feature:
The Year of Translated TV Dramas The announcements have been coming thick and fast over the last few days regarding new to the UK dramas from mainland Europe review:
Vanished By Liza Marklund This is a strange mix feature:
The Blaggers Guide To George Pelecanos The man Obama likes to take on holiday feature:
Altar Of Bones: A Literary Sensation But Who Dunnit? The publication of a crime thriller whose plot rests on a global conspiracy is fast inspiring its own, real-life literary conspiracy Feature ArticlesThought (and Other) Processes By Julia Crouch I'm not a creature of habit or routine – I'm more of an adapt and survive character All Crime Authors Depend On Expert Guidance
contributor: Leigh Russell Chasing Salander Expands The Dragon Tattoo Story The Chasing Salander iPhone app lets you dive deeper into Stieg Larson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo What makes a brilliant crime novel? From the painstaking work at the crime scene, forensic examination moves to the lab Euro Crime Favourite Read Of 2011 Is Mercy By Jussi-adler Olsen The Euro Crime website review team have voted Mercy by Jussi-Adler Olsen, translated by Lisa Hartford and published by Penguin, as their favourite read of 2011 Crime has long been part of Filipino literature, with criminal and violent acts at the heart of many a literary work Crime Scene Forensics: How Does It Work? Forensic techniques and practices are now a key part of police investigations from the start Plotto: The Master Book Of All Plots The art of mechanized storytelling The Times On Death In A Cold Climate
contributor: Iain Finlayson This overview of a literary phenomenon is as definitive as any aficionado could hope for.' The Best Mystery/Crime Fiction of 2011 - Spinetingler Magazine These lists are imperfect but we believe all of these books to worth your time In honor of this week's first vote in the long American presidential election season, some quick remarks about two crime novels shot through with American politics Mark Edwards: Catch Your Death Catch Your Death started life as something very different to its final draft. My writing partner, Louise Voss, wanted to set a novel at the Common Cold Research Unit, a place near her hometown of Salisbury that for four decades had attracted volunteers who fancied a free holiday in the English countryside, doing their bit for Britain, the catch being that you were likely to be given a cold while you were there. I think Louise wanted to write a gentle love story about a summer romance in an unusual setting, but I immediately saw potential for a conspiracy thriller... Making Stuff Up With Stuart MacBride Most writers would agree that the best bit about writing is the hanging about in the bar at conventions. Second best is the bit where we get to make shit up for a living. Normally my books are set in Aberdeen, and as it's a real place with real streets and real businesses and real people there's a limit as to how much I can pull out of the fluff-infested tunnels of my imagination. I have to be at least reasonably true to the place. And I have to be careful what I say about certain institutions if I don't want to get ostracised or sued. Which is why I've gone "all made up, all of the time" for the new book, BIRTHDAYS FOR THE DEAD, setting it in the fictional town of Oldcastle – halfway between the shiny metropolises of Aberdeen and Dundee 9 Books Shaping The Next Generation Of Mystery Writers Here is a list of novels I think should be influential to the next generation of mystery writers 12 Days Of Kindle: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery - The Winners & Losers 40 titles have so far made it to the 12 Days of Kindle: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery list and Harper Collins, Corvus (part of Atlantic) and Constable Robinson are the clear winners. A few more books are added daily throughout the 12 Days of Kindle but the battle of the 99p ebooks is shaping up into a 3 (or maybe 4) way battle It's probably, in part, at least, a function of my getting generally older and slower that caused my most recent book, Good Bait, to take longer than usual – some eighteen months, as against what used to be twelve. [And before that, nine, or even eight – never mind those far-off glory days of pulp, when my fellow scribes and I would churn out a 50,000 word, 128 page manuscript in four weeks.] January Magazine Best Crime Fiction Of 2011: Part II The second crime fiction segment of January Magazine's Best Books of 2011 feature Whoa! There are far more awards for writers of crime fiction than I realized IT'S THE 17th SPECIAL EXTRA CHRISTMASSY MARK BILLINGHAM NEWSLETTER Well, it's been quite a year one way and another. In the UK we had a Royal Wedding and summer riots. On the one hand we all sat and witnessed a gaggle of workshy layabouts whose actions cost us all a lot of money. Then there were the riots. You see what I did there? Yes, quitting stand-up comedy may well have been a very good move. Aside from the makers of William & Kate commemorative tea cosies, it was not the best of years for a great many people, most notably some of the world's leading tyrants. Several of those in the Top Ten International Despots (there's no such chart, for those eager to see who's made it to Christmas Number One) were either deposed or actually turned up their toes in 2011... Michael Ridpath brings Crime Time up-to-date... I am just finishing the final revisions to the third book in my Fire and Ice series set in Iceland. It is April 2010, and my detective, Magnus, investigates a murder on the rim of Eyjafjallajökull volcano. A group of foreigners are visiting Iceland: it turns out that they all work for Freeflow, an organization devoted to posting leaks on the web. Everyone hates them, so lots of suspects there. The book will be called Meltwater and will be published next May... New Outing From Iceland's Queen Of Crime Her previous book stayed on German bestseller lists for weeks on end. Now, with a new mystery out featuring an abandoned yacht drifting into harbour, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is again set to make waves. January Magazine: Best Crime Fiction Of 2011 Linwood Barclay, Michael Wiley, RJ Ellory, Alan Glynn and Joseph Finder are among the authors who feature George Pelecanos Novel Steers Marketing In New Direction George Pelecanos, the author of 17 crime novels set in the gritty, "other" Washington will publish a new book in January with a marketing twist The Amateur Detective Just Won't Do Raymond Chandler and British Detective Fiction (Part One) |
