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Reviews and Articles listed A-Z by author >> Crime Time NewsForshaw 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 Michael Harvey On The Third Rail When I sat down to write The Third Rail, the only thing I knew for sure was that I wanted it to rock. No preliminaries. No preamble. No messing about. And then I thought of the L.For those of you who have never been to Chicago, the L is an elevated train (hence the name "L") that winds through almost every neighborhood in the city. Its tracks snake down alleys and across back yards, often rumbling within a few feet of apartment buildings and offices... Buy One Ticket To The Psycho-thrillers Session, Get One Free. Exclusive to Crime Time: buy one ticket to the Psycho-Thrillers session, get one free. For the Jewish Book Week event with Frank Tallis, Philip Sington and Barry Forshaw , email liz@jewishbookweek.com or call 020 7446 8771 The bestselling Titles at US crime Bookstores in January have been collated by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association: Crime And Sensation From Penguin Classics This month Penguin Classics launches a series of "Victorian Bestsellers", a collection of sensationalist-romantic novels from the 18th and 19th centuries, from the Sweeney Todd classic The String of Pearls to The Woman in White. From the moment each of these books appeared, they were staggeringly popular, the bestsellers of their day, and they continued to be read for years afterwards throughout the Victorian era (The coinage 'Victorian Bestsellers' refers not only to when they were published—half of them were published before Victoria came to the throne—but also to when they were being read) Pint-sized Stories Launch 2010 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival Programme Some of the biggest names in the crime writing world will gathered in Harrogate to celebrate the launch of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival programme. Described by Festival Chief Executive Sharon Canavar as "one of the strongest line-ups yet", the world-famous crime festival will welcome such genre giants as Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, and this year's Festival Chair, Stuart MacBride CrimeFest is to post its much-anticipated draft programme being on their website by the end of the month (Crime Time will also post details). Len Tyler is just one of the participating authors at CRIMEFEST this year, and there are some exciting last minute additions. You may not have heard of Giorgio Faletti yet, but that is about to change. Described as the next Stieg Larsson, Faletti is a phenomenon on the continent, where his books sell in the millions Philip Sington On Psycho-thrillers Philip Sington, author of the much-acclaimed The Einstein Girl, will be talking to fellow novelist Frank Tallis and writer/critic Barry Forshaw at a Jewish Book Week Event called Psycho-thrillers. The Einstein Girl is set two months before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, a beautiful young woman is found half naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. When she finally emerges from a coma, she can remember nothing, not even her own name... Frank Tallis Up For Thriller Award FATAL LIES by Frank Tallis has been named a finalist in the Best Paperback Category for the 2010 International Thriller Writer Awards. The winner will be announced at ThrillerFest weekend on July 7-10th at the Grand Hyatt in NYC. Tallis willfeature in a panel on Psycho-Thrillers at Jewish Book Week Psycho-thrillers: Tallis And Sington Speak A panel on Psycho-Thrillers is to be a key event at Jewish Book Week. In the best traditions of historical crime writing, Philip Sington's The Einstein Girl and Frank Tallis' Deadly Communion interweave fiction and fact, as well as re-create whole eras. The reader is not only entranced and entertained but takes away an enhanced understanding of the theories of Einstein or Freud. These highly accomplished practitioners of their craft discuss fiction, myth and reality with crime critic Barry Forshaw Calling All Crime Writers: New Theakstons Old Peculier Competition Theakston's Old Peculier have announced a brand new competition for those who think they have what it takes to break into the crime writing business. Enter crime drama channel alibi's Search for A New Crime Writer 2010 and have the chance of winning tickets to the 2010 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival among a host other fantastic prizes... The Birth Of The Detective Branch: Andrew Pepper One thing that has always intrigued me – and what became a major impetus to write my novel – is the lack of attention paid by Victorian novelists to the birth of police detection and more particularly to Scotland Yard's Detective Branch. It is true that Dickens gave us Inspector Bucket and Collins, Sergeant Cuff, and as Kate Summerscale's excellent recent book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher showed us, the public perception of 'real-life' policing figures like Jack Whicher, who is a minor character in The Detective Branch, has been greatly influenced by such literary endeavours... Edgar Nomination For Malla Nun
The celebrated private detective and crime novelist Robert B. Parker has died -At the age of 77, "just sitting at his desk" at his home in the Boston area. The bestselling author carried the private detective genre into a new century, writing about a tough detective named Spencer since 1971. Courtesy of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association, here are the crime titles that rang the tills in December... familiar names here. Bestselling author Val McDermid has been named as the recipient of this year's prestigious CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, which honours outstanding achievement in the field of crime writing. The announcement has been made by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) in recognition of Val's work over more than 20 years Okay, off with the old, on with the new. Enough of this sabbatical business. Work awaits. It's not so easy getting back to writing fiction when you've set it aside for a while, at least that's how it appears, but I do seem to have started something which feels as if it might grow into a novel. It even has a title. Good Bait... Top Notch Thrillers: The Next Batch Top Notch Thrillers - the imprint making cherishable items from the past available again - has some choice items for February. These include Alan Williams' "The Tale of the Lazy Dog" alongside "Time Is An Ambush" by Francis Clifford, "A Flock of Ships" by Brian Callison and "The Ninth Directive" by Adam Hall (the second Quiller outing, containing an unpublished essay by the author's son on "Life With Quiller") Sony's Reader To Sponsor Crime Ebook Award Reader by Sony, manufacturer of the Pocket and Touch Edition eBook Readers, is to sponsor CRIMEFEST's Crime eBook Award. The award for best crime eBook of 2009 will be presented at the Gala Dinner on 22 May. The winning author will receive a cash prize and a Reader Touch Edition. There will also be a number of Sony's Readers available as competition prizes, one of which will be running in The Times, CRIMEFEST's media partner for 2010 Where 'Giallo' Meets 'Noir': Prize-winners At The Noir In Festival At Courmayeur Bob Cornwell reports on The Noir in Festival, Courmayeur, Italy... 'Giallo', 'gialli' in the Italian plural, 'noir' in France and across the world; it is interesting, is it not, that these terms, applied widely to both crime film and literature, in fact mostly derive from literary sources. 'Noir', of course, is strongly associated with 'Série Noire', the iconic French crime imprint created by Marcel Duhamel in 1945. 'Gialli', even earlier, originates with key Italian publisher Mondadori, who in 1929 under editor Alberto Tedeschi first established the 'Il Libri Gialli" crime imprint, published weekly and recognised by their distinctive yellow ('giallo') covers... The Unstoppable Lisbeth Salander The unstoppable Lisbeth Salander continues her upwards trajectory. Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO has overtaken James Patterson by 3,654 copies to take the No. 1 slot in the fiction pb bestseller position, with 38,091 copies sold. James Patterson follows at No. 2 with 34,527 copies. Ann Cleeves' Hidden Depths Filmed With Brenda Blethyn According to the Bookseller, Pan Macmillan is to rejacket crime author Ann Cleeves' Inspector Vera Stanhope novels with an "atmospheric" new look. The publisher has also delayed publication of the titles to tie in with broadcast of the ITV1 adaptation of Cleeves' novel Hidden Depths, which has now been set for September 2010 Innovative Campaign For Peter James Peter James, one of the UK's most treasured crime and thriller novelists, launches his series app today. With a unique series design, the Peter James app features special content exclusive to the iPhone app edition of Dead Tomorrow The world's most famous detective will return to Baker Street this Christmas as Madame Tussauds confirms a new figure of Robert Downey Jr as the legendary Sherlock Holmes is near completion. In celebration of the Boxing Day release of the new fim adapatation"Sherlock Holmes," Madame Tussauds has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures on a new experience of the legendary detective as portrayed in the film by Robert Downey Jr Next 25 |
