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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:
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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 Crime Time NewsSci-fi and fantasy specialist Angry Robot Books is to launch a crime fiction imprint in 2013 Mercy: Jussi Adler-Olsen's Carl Morck Novels To Be Adapted For The Screen Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen's series detective Carl Morck (of Copenhagen's Department Q) is to enjoy a screen adaptation courtesy of Louise Vesth, one of the producers of Lars von Trier's Melancholia. The first four Department Q novels will be prepared for television and cinema release along the lines of the Larsson Millennium trilogy screen versions. Crime Time's Best Crime Novel Of 2011 Goes To Before I Go To Sleep By S. J. Watson Congratulations to the winner of Crime Time's Best Crime Novel of 2011, Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson (published by Transworld), which just pipped all the others to make it into first place UK Launch Of The Boy In The Suitcase At Foyles The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnette Friis is being launched at Foyles on 17th January at The Gallery, Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB; TIME: 6.30pm to 8.00pm. Shots' Stotter Shoots Straight The parallel career of the editor of Shots, Mike Stotter (as author of gritty Westerns), continues, as he tells Crime Time: For all those Kindle lovers out there, hot on the heels of TOMBSTONE SHOWDOWN comes the sequel TUCSON JUSTICE. The serenity of the township of Flower Creek is blasted apart by gunfire. Inside a minute two men lay dead and a third left mortally wounded... One of the finest of current crime fiction practitioners, Meg Gardiner, talks to Crime Time... The Nightmare Thief, my latest thriller, was published in paperback by Blue Door in November. It's a story of a kidnap gone wrong and the subsequent fight for survival in the Californian wilderness. It features the heroines of both my series: Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney. For readers wanting to delve into the how-to of crime writing, I'm a contributor to Now Write! Mysteries, just published by Penguin US, and The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing, which will be published by Bloomsbury later this year. The Ten Best Mysteries Of 2011 (as Voted By German Critics & Journalists) Around 1,200 new crime novels appear every year in Germany and once a year a jury of 16 critics present their selection of The Ten Best Mysteries £87.6m in crime and thrillers How Much Should An Ebook Cost? This is the wrong question. The right question is: How much will an ebook cost? Startup E-book House Releases Crime Anthology Bstsllr.com, is an e-book publishing house specializing in crime and mystery fiction Leigh Russell's 12 Days Of Christmas Leigh Russell's new Geraldine Steel novel has been selected as 1 of 35 crime mysteries included in amazon kindle's 12 Days of Christmas offer retailng at just 99p Procrastinating With Stella Duffy The Protean Ms Duffy on her multifarious activities . . . Having had a lovely time directing TaniwhaThames for Shaky Isles at Oval House Theatre in Nov/Dec of 2011, I'm now looking at two new directing projects for 2012. Carnival for the Dead, which will be my last Italian novel for a while, appears from Pan Macmillan on January 5th 2011. It's sort of the tenth in my Nic Costa series, though Costa and most of his chums are absent. This is a solo outing for one of the most popular characters in the series, Teresa Lupo, who finds herself in Venice during carnival looking for a lost aunt. It's an ambitious story - Teresa keeps getting clues as full-length short stories from a mysterious figure who may or may not be trying to help. I tip a hat to some of my early heroes such as MR James and Robert Aickman in these. One reason I won't be spending time in Italy for a while is my commitment to write two books based on the very popular Danish TV series The Killing... No Exit Launch Ebook Originals For Xmas No Exit Press is publishing 3 new crime titles as ebook originals for Xmas 2011 Andrew Garve For Bello, Pan Macmillan's New Digital Imprint Bello, Pan Macmillan's new digital imprint has launched. Pan Macmillan publishes the first twenty titles from its new digital imprint Bello, reviving 20th century classics for a 21st century audience. All launch books are drawn from the prestigious backlist of the Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency. Featured in the launch e-book list are 10 titles by one of the country's best-loved naturalists, Gerald Durrell, along with A crime novel from behind the Iron Curtain by Andrew Garve, Murder in Moscow is also available in e-book format... Publisher Alert: Arvo Basim Yayin Of Turkey Beware of foreign publishers bearing gifts Jakubowski Sidelines Crime For Erotica...temporarily Maxim Jakubowski has nothing major to report on the crime front, as all his current projects are erotica-related right now. But he hasn't neglected crime. There is the Mammoth Best British Mystery out in January, and work on the next volume which will begin in March. Maxim is then and doing a week of creative crime writing teaching in France in June... It's a busy season for Jim's band Three-Legged Dog, which is playing out all over Arizona, wagging their twenty or so instrument cases behind. Not to mention new original songs by Jim and the band's primary singer and guitarist, Odie Piker. Got a hankering for banjo, mandolin, Hawaiian guitar, accordion, cello, fiddle, or bouzouki? CDs can be ordered from the website, www.three-legged-dog.net. And Jim's latest column for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction takes a long look at an extraordinary writer and The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1... The Phenomenon Of Hans Koppel's She's Never Coming Back Hans Koppel's She's Never Coimng Back is already a phenomenon, as part of a story that has obsessed readers across Scandinavia for the past year. It was the rights sensation of Frankfurt 2010, where it sold to 10 countries. Film rights have been optioned by Firebird, the producers of the Stieg Larsson films. It is Sphere's January launch title (following in the footsteps of The Shakespeare Secret by J.L. Carrell, The Birthing House by Christopher Ransom and Sphinx by T.S. Learner). No Exit to publish James Sallis sequel to 'DRIVE' No Exit Press has acquired, Driven, the hotly anticipated sequel to James Sallis' cult crime novel, Drive, which was made into a hit movie starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan and won a clutch of top awards. No Exit's Publishing Director, Ion Mills, bought UK and Commonwealth rights (including digital) for an undisclosed sum from the author's US agent, Vicky Bijur, through Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein Mo Hayder's Official Facebook page now has 2,230 followers and, while Mo admits to not being the "World's greatest social networker", there is now more direct input from the Hayder camp thanks to assistant Amy Childheart. Check it all out at http://www.facebook.com/AuthorMoHayder After this year's standalone novel (Hanging Hill), the next two novels are going to be Jack Caffery books - more of the Walking Man series (though not the end). While we're a bit unsure on release dates at the moment, it is hoped it could be late summer 2012. Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Fetival has announced that bestselling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo will be appearing as a Special Guest at the 2012 Festival. Next year's event takes place 19-22 July 2012 at the magnificent Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. Programming Chair Mark Billingham has put together an astounding programme, with Jo Nesbo joining a stellar line-up of Special Guests including Harlan Coben, John Connolly and Charlaine Harris. John Harvey shoots Crime Time the latest Harveyiana. Good Bait, my first novel since 2009, will be published by William Heinemann on January 5th of next year, with a ebook version available from Christmas Day . . . Lawrence Block's Inner Lesbian Is this the strongest female lead character ever to appear in a crime novel? New Jo Nesbo Harry Hole Crime Novel For 2012 Harvill Secker has announced a new Jo Nesbo Harry Hole crime novel for 2012. The Random House Group UK has announced the publication of Jo Nesbo's eagerly-awaited sequel to his #1 bestseller The Leopard. |
