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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 ReviewsAnno Dracula The Bloody Red Baron Kim Newman
contributor: Barry Forshaw This is a strange mix Drive DVD starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Albert Brooks
contributor: Mark Timlin
contributor: Barry Forshaw Just once in a while, a thriller comes along that is so good it takes your breath away
contributor: Bob Cornwell "There is film noir, noir on TV, every kind of literary noir you care to name," John Foster once remarked. "But where is noir in the theatre?" It's a pertinent observation from a man with a long career in TV drama.... The Mattress House By Paulus Hochgatterer Paulus Hochgatterer has followed THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE, which won the European Literature Prize in 2009, with another novel set in the same Austrian Alpine town of Furth am See The Retribution By Val Mcdermid Serial killers in fiction seem almost cosy these days Edge Of Dark Water Joe Lansdale
contributor: Russell James
contributor: Barry Forshaw in The Independent The Istanbul Puzzle By Laurence O'Bryan Compelling debut thriller combines plenty of stirring action with fascinating historical detail
contributor: Mark Timlin Birthdays For The Dead By Stuart Macbride In this stand-alone departure from MacBride's popular Logan McRae series, Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a seriously faulty moral compass
contributor: Michael Carlson A June Of Ordinary Murders By Conor Brady It's not often you get a debut crime novel from a former editor of the Irish Times who is also a former Garda Ombudsman I Will Have Vengeance By Maurizio De Giovanni Trans Anne Milano Appel The first in a series featuring an enigmatic Naples detective Commissario Ricciardi and set during the Fascist 1930s The Golden Scales By Parker Bilal Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the dark heart of Cairo
contributor: Mark Timlin
contributor: Maxim Jakubowski Finders Keepers By Belinda Bauer With all the usual ingredients and formula of a crime thriller novel, I doubt dedicated genre readers will be disappointed by the latest novel from Belinda Bauer The Berlin Crossing By Kevin Brophy A story about reconciliation between the former east and west Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George, Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville, Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer and Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill The Whisperer By Donato Carrisi The Whisperer grabs you by the throat from the opening chapters It was around chapter 31 that I realised I was reading the novel in entirely the wrong light, and doing Barlow a disservice in doing so Dublin Dead By Gerard O'Donovan The collapse of the Celtic Tiger has added extra resonance to Gerard O'Donovan's fiction |
