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Reviews and Articles listed A-Z by author >> Crime Time NewsThe Independent Alliance of publishers has organized a weekend of events at Foyles in Charing Cross Road on 11th and 12th September. The crime panel on 11th features a rare appearance by P D James. One ticket for the whole day is £15. The panel is chaired by Peter Guttridge. The People's Detective On Itv3 Examining every aspect of the great TV sleuths, ITV3's 'The People's Detective' series will run every Tues, from Sept 31st - Oct 5, repeated Thursdays. Expert commentary is provided by (among other) Barry Forshaw, author of The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction Greek Crime Writers' Association Formed In April this year, 24 writers of Greek crime fiction got together in a downtown Athens bistro and formed the Greek Crime Fiction Club, the country's first ever crime writers' organisation. Organised by writers (and journalists) Chrysa Spyropoulou and Yannis Ragos, the group now has its own blog (see below), and will meet monthly for both readings and to organise various events in the Greek capital Cwa Crime Writing Initiatives To Run Again The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has announced that it will again run two highly successful initiatives introduced in the past year. National Crime Writing Week, formerly National Crime Fiction Week, will run between June 13 and 19, 2011. The name change is designed to increase the emphasis on non-fiction as well as fiction. New Brighton Trilogy From Peter Guttridge City of Dreadful Night is the first entry in the new Brighton Trilogy by the much-acclaimed Peter Guttridge. In July 1934, A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's left luggage office. Her legs and feet are found in a suitcase at King's Cross. Her head is never found, her identity never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary... Daniel Craig And Rooney Mara For Dragon Remake Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara have been cast in the lead roles of Columbia Pictures' three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson's literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy under the direction of David Fincher. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – the first film of the series, which also includes The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest – begins shooting next month in Sweden Finalists For Inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award Announced THE THREE finalists for the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, which will be presented at a ceremony at the upcoming The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival in September, have now been confirmed. The award is made for the best crime, mystery, or thriller novel written by a New Zealand citizen or resident, published in New Zealand during 2009. A panel of seven local and international judges has been considering the best of locally written crime and thriller fiction published last year Daggers Line-up Revealed At Harrogate Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3, in partnership with the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), have announced three key book shortlists for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards on ITV3, celebrating the very best of British and International crime thriller fiction in the UK and beyond. The content of ITV3's brand new Crime Thriller Season of accompanying documentaries is also announced today at the Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, Yorkshire Two No Exit Press Titles Shortlisted For Cwa Dagger Awards Two No Exit titles have been shortlisted for CWA Dagger Awards in Harrogate at a packed event in The Crown Hotel. They are Conman/Richard Asplin (Gold Dagger) and Cut Short/Leigh Russell (John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger) Bodies In The Bookshop: Another Hit For Richard Reynolds Richard Reynolds of Heffers in Cambridge already runs the most quirky, individual crime fiction section in the country - bar none - but his celebrated Bodies in the Bookshop events (with a slew of crime authors and critics in attendance) have become an institution. The event on July 15 was particularly lively. Pd James' Only True Crime Book To Be Republished In November In 1811 John Williams was buried at a crossroads with a stake in his heart. This seemed a fitting punishment for the killer convicted of a horrific murder-spree which terrified Regency England. But did the real killer evade blame for the gruesome and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? The vivid and gripping reconstruction by P. D. James and T. A. Critchley draws on public records, newspaper clippings and hitherto unpublished sources, expertly sifting the evidence to shed new light on this infamous Wapping mystery. Originally published in 1971, The Maul and the Pear-Tree is James's only work of true crime and a historical mystery as gripping as her bestselling novels. It is now being republished in November with a stunning new design. James Lee Burke: New Scorpion Press Edition Scorpion Press (who specialise in deluxe limited editions) are making available a very collectable item: James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novel The Glass Rainbow in a signed limited edition with an introduction by another celebrated crime writer, John Connolly. The Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Festival is bringing to its Harrogate stage - all the way from Atlanta, Georgia - internationally best-selling author Karin Slaughter. Slaughter's last appearance at the Festival was in 2004... How Dark Is Your Noir: Peter James, Christopher Fowler, Barry Forshaw At Harrogate Apart from the 'How Dark Is Your Noir' panel with Peter James, Christopher Fowler and Barry Forshaw at Harrogate's Old Peculier Crime Festival on Saturday 24 July, there are other tempting highlights... Peter Temple's Truth Bags Miles Franklin Award Peter Temple's Truth (published in the UK by Quercus) established a precedent last night when it became the first crime novel to bag Australia's most important literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. Temple, who has won five Ned Kelly awards for crime fiction, now lives in Australia after emigrating from South Africa Cactus Tv Identifies The "nation's Favourite Detective". Cactus TV has prepared a season of documentaries to identify the "Nation's Favourite Detective". The show will begin on 31st August with profiles of Morse and Frost, and the rest of the season will conist of five episodes featuring Tom Barnaby and Wycliffe, Wexford and Foyle, Jane Tennison and Marple, Poirot and Sherlock Holmes and Lewis and Rebus. Barry Forshaw, whose books include The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction and British Crime Writing, is to be one of the experts talking about the celebrated sleuths. Scent Of A Killer: Kevin Lewis Talks I'm very keen not to write the crime as a police procedural novel and so prefer to write about how Stacy manages her own demons while hunting the most violent and depraved predators London has to offer. This gives the reader a real insight into how Stacy Collins finds her perpetrator and how far she is prepared to cut through the read tape and push the rule book when killers and rapists have no respect for anyone or anything... Best Young Crime Writers Named A teenage crime writer from the West Midlands has won the National Young Crime Writers' Competition. Organised by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA), which represents the interests of published crime writers, and library authorities nationwide, the competition invited writers aged up to 18 to submit 1000 words of crime fiction... Macavity Nominations 2010 Announced Courtesy of Janet Rudolph & MYSTERY READERS INTERNATIONAL, here are the MACAVITY NOMINATIONS 2010 Best Novel Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman (Busted Flush Press) Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie (Wm. Morrow) Nemesis by Jo Nesbo, translated by Don Bartlett (HarperCollins) The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur) The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur)... Following the release of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes movie on DVD, more re-booted action from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless creation is being made available by the publishers Titan with the two latest titles from their handsomely designed series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Books, 25th of June 2010, £7.99). Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award Longlist Announced A major accolade in the crime writing field, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award is unique in that it is the only one of its kind which is largely voted for by the general public. Voting is at www.theakstons.co.uk; the result of this vote will determine the eight titles that make it onto the shortlist. Crime Scene Italy Now Available Giorgio Faletti, Barbara Baraldi, Donato Carrisi and Luigi Guicciardi, Rome Noir from Akashic Books... Intrigued by this resurgence in new Italian crime writing? Get the facts behind another of Europe's lively and expanding crime-writing nations with Crime Scene Italy, the latest in Crime Time's major series of profiles, edited by Bob Cornwell, covering the Crime Scenes of Europe (and, hopefully, beyond). Available as a downloadable PDF, just click on the link (indicated by the AIEP/IACW logo) on the Crime Time home page. Mcdermid, Rankin, Robinson And Cole In Running For Theakstons Old Peculier Genre giants including Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson and Martina Cole were today announced as having made the longlist of this year's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, one of the most prestigious crime writing prizes in the country. Now in its sixth year, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award was created to celebrate the very best in crime writing, and is open to British and Irish authors whose novels were published in paperback in 2009. Nominations For The Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards 2010 The Crime Writers' Association has announced the shortlists for a number of this year's Daggers - the prestigious awards that celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing. Giogio Faletti, author of the astonishing I Kill, has cancelled two English events: A talk with Barry Forshaw at the Italian Institute on Monday 24 May, and an appearance the weekend before at Bristol's CrimeFest. Faletti is suffering from heavy flu. Next 25 |
